Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Gamification —borrowing the motivating principles from games and applying them to a non-game setting—can rewire and bolster social dynamics in the classroom when properly implemented. A good game knows how to keep us challenged and in our zone of proximal development—or flow. Games also teach us to be critical thinkers.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 130

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2020

" This "operant conditioning chamber" was used to study and to train animals to perform certain tasks. Skinner was hardly the first to use animals in psychological experiments that sought to understand how the learning process works. Gamification. For Skinner, most famously, these animals were pigeons.

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Training Gamification Exercises Technology 106

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond. So that leaves a lot of districts without that specific support.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond. So that leaves a lot of districts without that specific support.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Faced with implementing new standards and inquiry-based instruction for over 180 school districts and over 30,000 social studies teachers with a department of two people, the social studies team at the Georgia Department of Education turned to virtual learning communities on edWeb.net to reach Georgia teachers and leaders. The results.

Professional Learning 40

Professional Learning Learning Study Elementary 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2016

With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student. In conjunction with blended learning, I’ve used gamification to change the culture of my classroom—focusing on students becoming positive collaborators and self-managers of their learning.

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Blended Learning Gamification Strategy Classroom 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2015

Interdependence–Examining how the “thing” relates to other (similar and non-similar) “things” 6. A literary device–a metaphor example, is usually studied in isolation. Whole–See the “thing” fully and within context. This writer uses this metaphor in this way to this effect.

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Strategy STEM Examples Gamification 40

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? He was a bit older than me, and he actually learned how to program in 1’s and 0’s. Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program. Date: February 27, 2018.

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Gamification Company Game-Based Learning Elementary 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities.

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Assessment Gamification Digital Citizenship Social Media 167

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Gold stars that seem exciting for elementary schoolers can fall flat with high schoolers. Yu-kai Chou, a gamification expert who developed the Octalysis design framework, describes eight “core drives” for human motivation that can be built into game design. Yu-kai Chou, developer of the Octalysis gamification design framework.

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Data Education Gamification Software 73

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 70

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Here is a sample of case studies that illustrate how AV can turn K-12 spaces into student-driven hubs. Most recently, this included replacing older whiteboards and failing projectors in the ISD’s three elementary schools with new BenQ RP653 Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs). The results have been compelling.

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Trends Elementary Case Study System 48

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Education technology has become so bound up in arguments about the necessity of technology, that it’s forgotten how to be anything other than the most loyal of servants to ideologies of machines, efficiencies, capitalism. And in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they themselves think.

Training 40

Training Technology Conference Course 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 117

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145