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A Guide to Choosing an Interactive Learning Platform

ViewSonic Education

This has fueled trends like gamification , nano-learning , education ecosystems , and mobile-first learning , while futuristic developments like Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and metaverse learning are on the horizon. Because not everyone on the school staff is a tech wizard, getting a platform up and running can be tricky.

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How to Get Teachers to Embrace Gamification

Graphite Blog

Gamification is a hot trend, but it’s more than that -- it’s tapping into students' interests in order to give them the opportunity to explore, problem-solve, and build social skills while connecting with curriculum-based skills and concepts. Of course you do, and you can through gamified classrooms! Show before you tell.

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How to Get Teachers to Embrace Gamification

Graphite Blog

Gamification is a hot trend, but it's more than that -- it's tapping into students' interests to give them the opportunity to explore, problem-solve, and build social skills while connecting with curriculum-based skills and concepts. I just finished teaching a 10-hour "Gamify Your Classroom" workshop to 20 teachers.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

Edsurge

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. In 2018, I attended a workshop where I talked with a game-app developer. We started talking about gamification and how we could use games in a different way, a more developmental way.

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14 Education Advancements in a Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dedicated teacher training. A 2014 study conducted for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found many teachers felt learning in a seminar or workshop — what is commonly referred to as the “sit ‘n’ get” model of professional development — didn’t work for them. Gamification of classes.

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Transforming and Personalize PD in Your Own District

MSEDTechie

to offer technology training for teachers by allowing them to book appointments with the district technologists for training on the topic of their choice. Teachers get a menu of choices of what they want to train on, and can even suggest trainings that are not on the list.

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TOP 10 Ways To Deliver The Worst PD EVER!

MSEDTechie

If you are going to train teachers, you should have experience with instruction. There is nothing worse than receiving training on a tool that you don’t have access to, or will never get to use. Ex: using a overhead projector, training on a product that is old and has replacement. and no particular order….