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How to Gamify Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

Digital breakouts, which use Google Forms among other tools, represent a type of gamification. How K–12 School Leaders Can Help Incorporate Gamification. A recent study on the use of technology in the classroom found teachers lack professional development and training around the digital curriculum. . by Joe McAllister.

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14 Effective Self-Directed Learning Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Think about Twitter PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) or educational forums like this Educators Technology for tech-related stuff. This strategy comes from the psychological spacing effect and has been substantiated through various studies, like Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve research. Mayer in his work on multimedia learning.

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K–12 Teachers Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Platforms to Teach Coding

EdTech Magazine

A study conducted at Georgia Tech found that students who used mobile augmented reality platforms to learn coding performed better on assessments than their counterparts. . “We Innovations in virtual and augmented reality in the classroom are taking the concept of gamification to a whole new level. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. For middle schools, the percentage of students watching online videos for schoolwork rises to 74%, and the subjects for which video supports their learning are various: science, math, social studies, history, English, language, and arts.

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Game Mechanics in the Classroom to Engage Learners

The CoolCatTeacher

Every Classroom Matters Episode 204 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today’s guest, Michael Matera, is a middle school social studies teacher who runs a sixth grade game-based history class . BUILD YOUR PLN: Follow @ mrmatera on Twitter. His book is fantastic!

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

Matthew Farber on episode 268 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There’s gamification. Gamification versus Game-Based Learning. So gamification — those are those structures around games. That’s a little bit different from gamification.

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Explore Like a Pirate: Classroom Games and Gamification

Fractus Learning

In late 2015, Matera published his experiences in the book Explore Like a Pirate : Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners. Be sure to connect with his Twitter chat book study at #XPLAP. It’s a fun way to organize a lot of information in an easily consumable way.