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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code. Learning is more accessible because virtual robots do not require hardware, space, or other associated costs.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

For over a decade Gabe Zichermann was a self-described “cheerleader” for what’s called “gamification.” In that moment, the app serves up an intervention like a breathing exercise, or an invitation to get in touch with a friend. Fighting tech with tech.

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

Hack Education

Papert, who helped develop the first programming language for children, LOGO, and its beloved Turtle robot, and who passed away earlier this year, was a visionary thinker about computers as powerful “objects to think with.” Gamification. The computer programming the child.” “ …Such an organism as a pigeon.”