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Ten Quick Questions: A Fantastic, Free Mental Maths Tool.

EdTech4Beginners

Ten Quick Questions is a free program you can download on your computer. It looks quite dated, but is still an excellent tool to use in arithmetic sessions. Click here for the download. It is motivational and some have even downloaded the program at home to practise. How do I use Ten Quick Questions?

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How to Gamify Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

Several technology-based tools can take PD to the next level, boosting problem solving and communication between staffers and inspiring teachers to use those educational tools to create their own student-facing lessons. Digital breakouts, which use Google Forms among other tools, represent a type of gamification.

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5 Simple Ways to Gamify Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Download this episode as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “Save As.” Click the link to go download it on Kindle today! (US In today’s show, we’ll discuss: 5 cool tools: Wheel Decide, Breakout Facebook groups, challenges, some awesome quizzing tools (see links below). Listen now.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Augmentation: Technology not only replaces a traditional tool but adds functionality, e.g. using Google Earth to explore the setting of a story rather than a map. e.g. using virtual meeting tools (like Google Hangouts) to include housebound students in a class.

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6 eLearning Trends in Custom eLearning Solutions

But technology, at its core, is simply a set of tools. And tools need a context and a plan. It is too easy to focus on the flash of the tools and ignore the core of learning fundamentals. It won’t be enough that gamification and AR/VR can make learning engaging.

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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

Their tools should be focused on pedagogy. Otherwise, learners will keep making the same errors or forget what they did in the first place. What are some examples of modern pedagogical practices or tools? Gamification Educators can include gamification in teaching and learning to motivate students. So what is pedagogy?

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Reaching edtech harmony in your classroom

eSchool News

Educators, learners, instructional technology coaches, and IT/edtech staff are grappling with the complexities of managing an ever-expanding arsenal of disconnected digital tools. For example, smart board tools such as text to speech, translation, or word prediction can help students overcome language barriers and unique challenges.

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