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Your midsummer ed-tech check-in

eSchool News

OER meets iPads in this district. Believe it or not, writing is a natural fit for gamification techniques. Every new teacher should be able to answer these 7 questions. Teaching for the 21st century looks a lot different. Here’s what admins — and teachers — need to know for job interviews and beyond.

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5 Ways Video Games Transform Learning and Prepare Students for Tomorrow's Jobs

Edsurge

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. Here are some key insights we’ve gathered about the ways video games foster learning: 1. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. But participants were very, very engaged from the start.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Higher education is going through a massive transformation thanks to the adoption of new technologies like mobile learning , gamification and digital courseware. Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions. Though digital courseware has a broad definition, all solutions share some common characteristics-.

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

Breakout EDU experiences have been used at faculty meetings, parent nights at schools, at all types of education conferences, and, of course, in many classroom settings. The lesson I learned with Pokemon Go is not that gaming and gamification are essential to learning. But these are just my opinions.

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Four game changers

Learning with 'e's

It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. He requested a meeting with me after reading my blog reportage of his speech. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. Conrad Wolfram.

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