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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Facebook demands its potential users to be at least 13, but a lot of school kids say they never or rarely use Facebook anyway. You’re probably familiar with the notion of gamification — the use of gaming principles and mechanics in a non-game context, like learning. Gamification is all about data.

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5 Simple Ways to Gamify Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University. In today’s show, we’ll discuss: 5 cool tools: Wheel Decide, Breakout Facebook groups, challenges, some awesome quizzing tools (see links below). See the full list of shows. Selected Links from this Episode.

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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

The CoolCatTeacher

Blog: [link] Twitter @ matthewfarber Facebook [link] Gaming SEL Book Description Games enable children to practice emotions in spaces that are free from actualized consequences. More Game-Based Learning Teacher Resources. His latest book is GAMING SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning.

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Mix a little math into that bedtime story

The Hechinger Report

It grew so fast that she quickly moved from emailing to posting math stories on Facebook, and then Tweeting them, before launching the app, which hundreds of thousands of parents have since downloaded. There are no fancy graphics, sound effects, scores, rewards or other gamification gewgaws. Overdeck has kept the app simple.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Using gamification, the most motivational aspects of games in non-game settings, has changed the game of school. Check out Felix Jacomino’s Photo Album on Facebook Miami Device 2014 , and click on over to Aníbal Pacheco’s Miami Device: The Experience Pinterest Board.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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AV that Makes the Grade

techlearning

Containing seven campuses with three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, an alternative school, and a learning center, Castleberry ISD is an educational leader that is committed to supporting “lifelong learning” in a diverse, changing world, according to the school. The results have been compelling.

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