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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

Why consider Schoology? Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. How does Schoology meet the pedagogy of today? Why would students want to use Schoology? Example ways to use Schoology.

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

There’s gamification. Gamification versus Game-Based Learning. So gamification — those are those structures around games. That’s a little bit different from gamification. These teachers use some version of gamification, but they always use games in the classroom. They use Google Classroom, or Schoology.

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How One Teacher's Curiosity Led to Gamification in the Classroom

Graphite Blog

Games Offer Instant Feedback Technology allows me to push results quickly to students. I’ve organized my missions into folders in Schoology. Other photos from BrainPop and Schoology captured by the author. Game-based apps like Socrative and Kahoot give me the power to adapt lessons quickly. Used under a CC BY 2.0

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

No technology for the class. In my case it was Schoology , but the same could be done with many other platforms, like Edmodo or even Google Classroom. And depending on how you set them up, these learning resources can include creativity and gamification that keep kids engaged. The rationale is that it's just not worth it.

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

No technology for the class. In my case it was Schoology , but the same could be done with many other platforms, like Edmodo or even Google Classroom. And depending on how you set them up, these learning resources can include creativity and gamification that keep kids engaged. The rationale is that it's just not worth it.

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

No technology for the class. In my case it was Schoology , but the same could be done with many other platforms, like Edmodo or even Google Classroom. And depending on how you set them up, these learning resources can include creativity and gamification that keep kids engaged. The rationale is that it's just not worth it.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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