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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. Platforms like CoderZ offer virtual programming services where children can learn code through games. These games make learning code both fun and engaging for kids. Disco Blocks – Students had to get their robot to a target. Applications.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

Young people with milder problems may learn from their more “deviant peers,” she says. Video games or social media may be avoidable, but most students need to use computers for school assignments, build tech skills for the workplace, and learn to combat distraction and procrastination as part of growing up.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

Education technology is not always loyal to institutions, of course; it’s not always loyal to democracy either; it’s not always loyal to learning or to teaching – to students or to teachers; but it’s always fiercely loyal to itself and its own rationale, to its own existence. The computer programming the child.”