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How to Build a Modern School – 6 Key Elements to Embed in Your Groundwork

ViewSonic Education

For example, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls not only empathize intellect but also social skills in their mission statement. This school recognizes that there is a gap in Millennials and Generation Z’s social skills fueled by growing up on mobile phones, social media, and online chatting.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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“We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. But the pair also didn’t want to reduce collaboration online to a dry, empty Google Doc, either. A softer, more nuanced form of gamification is on the rise.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

There are the ones, overwhelmingly boys, who spend so much time playing video games that, in his words, they “fall behind in their social skills.” Then, there is a group of mostly girls who misuse and overuse social media. ” Often they are battling depression or anxiety, or may be on the autism spectrum.

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Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

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STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. Build an app - sell it in the Apple or Google Play app store. I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me. Create 3D printables - sell on Shapeways.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

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Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. They worry that the pedagogical benefits of having students participate in the open web and/or social media might be cancelled out by trolls, hate speech and other forms of online abuse.

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