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Teaching History with Simulations and Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

History Simulations and Game Based Learning. This is something that I paid a programmer to develop for me, because the way we used to do it was with a Word document that I drew the countries on, and we used a spreadsheet with that. Watch the presentation. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down.

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Game-Based Learning: How to get Started

EdTechTeam

Game-Based Learning is an experiential approach to education that uses games to engage and motivate students in the learning process. One of the key researchers in the field of Game-Based Learning is James Paul Gee, who has outlined 36 principles of good learning that can be found in games.

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7 Digital tools for student engagement across all grade levels

Neo LMS

To engage students, we need tools that work well regardless of where learning is taking place — hybrid, virtual or in-person. Buncee is a multimedia presentation tool that fuels creativity. My older students use it for teaching a lesson or to present their project-based learning (PBL) findings.

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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

If it is only being used to present content to students, then why not just record videos and have students watch them on their own? is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. My goal is to have all my students actively engaged throughout the meeting.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

The possibilities are almost countless since you can actually show students how molecules look like, present the famous battles, present ocean creatures, and do many similar things previously considered impossible. Game-based learning. The best way to acquire and retain knowledge is by learning through games.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. I remember as a teacher many years ago asking my students to raise their hands to respond to a question and even during Jeopardy-style review games had groups collaborate on their response.

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Modern Learning Strategies: 6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Learning is a conversation–whether personal, local, and direct, or more general, global, and digitally-based. What are the effects of dialogic learning? A 2008 study by Stan Frijters, Geert ten Dam, and Gert Rijlaarsdam presented a study on teaching value-loaded critical thinking comprising of 297 students.

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