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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

Why consider Schoology? Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. How does Schoology meet the pedagogy of today? Why would students want to use Schoology? Example ways to use Schoology.

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

And some of those examples are from James Paul Gee, the professor who coined the term “affinity group” and “affinity spaces.” There’s gamification. Gamification versus Game-Based Learning. So gamification — those are those structures around games. That’s a little bit different from gamification. Vicki: Right.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”

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