eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too. Diana Heldfond, CEO & Founder, Parallel Learning Are students learning?

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Neo LMS

JULY 17, 2018

Building on my curiosity about the way games like Candy Crush affect our minds, I thought we’d take a closer look at gamification. Recently, learning system and content designers have been adding game elements to learning management systems , and it is this type of gamification we will explore today. Gamification versus play.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

How does Schoology meet the pedagogy of today? Teachers can also implement elements of gamification rather easily as Schoology provides access to “student completion settings”, hidden folders or assignments, and a badge creation tool. This provides more time for the teacher to facilitate instruction and meet with students 1:1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too. Diana Heldfond, CEO & Founder, Parallel Learning Are students learning?

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Gamification for Learning. Our approach towards designing our educational applications was to incorporate gamification theory and techniques (narrative, acknowledging achievement, giving rewards, socialisation and altruism), as to encourage and motivate students with higher levels of engagement through learning activities.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2016

With Gonder as CEO, Moneythink starts with committed college mentors who meet weekly with small “teams” of juniors and seniors in local high schools to talk about mindful spending, goal-directed saving, and the smart use of credit cards and other financial products. A lot of our students are dealing with some very real financial situations.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

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. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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