eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Founded in 2012 by Chris Twyman and Ian Garland, the innovative, web-based publishing platform brings together passionate educators, technology experts, corporate sponsors, enthusiastic parents, and students to promote and develop creativity, writing, reading, critical thinking, and other essential 21st century literacy skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The two companies have had on-and-off conversations about partnership opportunities since 2012. I still see a lot of gamification out in the market,” he says, referring to tools that rely on points and rewards as incentives to drive behavior. But this year, the possibility of an acquisition emerged. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 3, 2012

Or Click on the PDF''s below 2012 Summer Reading ListsSummer Reading for Middle School Peeps & their Parents! From their first post: " Level Up Book Club , a home turf for open discussions on the gamification of schools and school-based instruction. You can download our summer reading list PDF''s from our MHMS Learning Wiki !

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 20, 2012

The recent Head Teacher Update (January 2012), features an article written by Graham Brown-Martin entitled ' What the future holds '. Stanford University professor Elizabeth Corcoran takes a different stance, suggesting that gamification (the art of using games to engage and inspire learning. 'is

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

To begin with some definitions, game-based learning differs from gamification in several important ways. Sometimes the latter is reduced to bells and whistles such as gold stars and progress bars, but gamification is potentially a much more subtle and powerful teaching strategy.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Using gamification, the most motivational aspects of games in non-game settings, has changed the game of school. Mobile Learning Experience 2011 , 2012 , and 2013 were fantastic opportunities for educators to learn, share, and connect. A massive online game? Come play along and learn how.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We can expect to see more projects of a similar nature taking hold in 2012. Gamification is inevitable, and massively online social games such as World of Warcraft 'allow us to highlight the connections between knowing, making and playing'. Wayne Mackintosh.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Wednesday, March 26th at 4pm Multiply the Impact: Martin Esterman’s Newest Math Game , We welcome Martin Esterman, 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge winner, for a look at his newest math game, Multiplication Blocks, available on GameUp! Sign up here. He’ll show you its ins and outs, focusing on the ways it can help increase performance.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

The Bedtime Math app , launched in 2012, spurs family math talk by sending parents daily word problems prefaced by a paragraph of story – about everything from subway-riding dogs to galactic travel – illustrated with a photo or video. There are no fancy graphics, sound effects, scores, rewards or other gamification gewgaws.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. Ron Clark’s Harry Potter-like House System https://mrsbowley.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-ron-clark-challenge-sorting-students-into-houses/. Michael Matera.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

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.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Gamification. A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012). I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces; I couldn’t miss because there was no such thing as a miss.” ” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). Genius Hour.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Jane McGonigal’s 2012 TED Talk shares how gaming can help those who game have resilience and how good games can improve the world. Other Gamification programs like GradeCraft , Rezzly , and Virtual Locker are all being used to add points, badges, and other gaming elements to the everyday classroom.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

. “We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade,” Chris Hayes wrote in Twilight of the Elites (2012). ” And here we are.

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