eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Revenue for game-based learning and education is projected to reach more than $24 billion by 2024, according to a new market forecast. Metaari’s 2019-2024 Global Game-based Learning Market study , released by Serious Play Conference, notes that growth in AI game-based learning also is expected to skyrocket, analysts say.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. The Basics of Digital Game-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Brian Aspinall, author of Code Breaker : 15+ Ways to Get Started with Coding, shares how students from kindergarten to high school can start to learn coding. SPONSOR: Join a Free Personalized Learning Session with Me and TextHelp! Get ready to talk about Personalized Learning. Enjoy Hour of Code week!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can design a game in any subject to assess their peers. When students design games they use a lot of creativity and critical thinking skills. Students must imagine and design worlds, characters, levels, sound effects, game elements, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Just go to coolcatteacher.com/shake to learn more. Kasey: Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool. We can keep learning more. Listen Now. Vicki: Yes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Thirty-three-year Presidential Award Winning science teacher Glen Westbroek believes in creating active learning experiences in his science classroom. Today we kick off science week on the 10-Minute Teacher talking about active learning, Next Generation Science Standards, and what an engaging science classroom looks like. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In addition to giving their students access to the two game-based learning platforms, Dallas ISD educators will be able choose to implement the fully-integrated curricula and professional development that accompanies each platform. Dallas ISD administrators and educators can learn more by visiting: [link].

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 10, 2021

And by playing games, students can practice and revise their thinking as they move through the developmental stages of mastering math facts at their own pace (Bay-Williams & Kling 2014). Fluency was previously viewed in context with speed and assessed through timed tests. For example, take my personal journey to learn Spanish.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Assessment in AR including classroom examples Effective ways to get started with AR Predictions on where AR will be in 5 years Who? Register Now AR Topics Some of the topics we will be discussing include: How teachers are teaching with augmented reality in the classroom Device configurations (does every student have to have one?)

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Netherlands-based Digipuzzle is an online educational resource that offers hundreds of G-rated learning games for younger audiences, many in both Spanish and English. Topics include math, animals, typing, geography, spelling, letter recognition, holidays, seasons, dinosaurs, USA, other games, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Being able to quickly share is essential to progress, learning, and celebrating student success. This happens most often while students are learning because not only will students show their work to the whole class on the board, but they’ll also need to demonstrate their process. Shift #3: Students as Teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 2018

Flipping Awesome Physics with an Asynchronous Flipped Gameful Mastery Learning Classroom. Now, Jon, you have recently implemented an asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning classroom. What is asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning? Vicki: Do you feel like they’re learning physics better?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools. My STEM class, iCreate, is a part of our K-12 STEM continuum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Kimberly Tyson @ tysonkimberly and Dr. Angela Peery @ drangelapeery share their advice for helping students learn blended vocabulary. Learn more. Want to hear another episode on helping students learn? Listen to Ramona Persaud talk about 5 ways to adjust teaching to how the brain learns. Recording starts 0:00:00].

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This years list has quite the variety and covers a wide range of educational content, such as: game based learning, programming/coding, educational resources, and more. This is all done through an educational portal making it easy to assess student learning and differentiate instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Studies have shown that the highly social and collaborative nature of the popular fantasy role-playing game cultivates a range of social-emotional skills, which can lay the foundation for improved learning. David Simkins, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is an expert on games and learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home. Finding these opportunities can help students bridge the gap from learning to application. From the 2018 interactive FutureSmart State Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2017

Learn about the challenges and advantages of breakout edu digital. Mari Venturino is a 7th-grade science and AVID teacher and Blended Learning Specialist at Mar Vista Academy in San Diego, CA. Today Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. These challenges are free! Listen Now. Blog: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Most teachers — and I consider myself pretty tech savvy — Unity has a fairly steep learning curve. What groups can listeners follow to learn more? I’ve got a lot to learn. Make it more immersive.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) started collaborating on game-based learning (GBL) in developmental math and writing instruction in the mid-2000s, they had no idea what they were setting in motion. Can a Classic Board Game Teach Writing Skills? Connecting the Dots Between Enjoyment and Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 10th, 2014 The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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techlearning

JANUARY 28, 2016

From programming, STEM, and game-based learning to assessments and stories, there’s something for everyone in this best-of-2015 list.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 9, 2018

I do… “Live + Laugh + Love = Learn” in my classroom. And we try to freestyle what we learned, and then somebody does the beat on the desk. It’s from Curio Learning, “Teach Like a Rebel.”. Well, Kim, you’re somebody that I know that all of our remarkable teachers are going to want to learn more about. Kim: I just love it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2020

They probably won’t feed mule deer in the future, but through a thoughtfully constructed interactive video game, learners can build their science proficiency in engaging and meaningful ways. In an edWebinar sponsored by Immersed Games, “ Supporting Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Learning with Video Games ,” Lindsey Tropf, M.Ed.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Many educators find that gamifying learning keeps students engaged. BreakoutEDU , for example, is an educational game platform that includes a curated set of physical materials—think padlocks, boxes and invisible ink—and activities across a wide range of subjects and grade levels. Learn how teachers are using the app.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Future is STEM/STEAM. We celebrated National STEM/STEAM Day just a few weeks ago, a reminder of how important it is to foster our students’ curiosity around math and science endeavors. STEM/STEAM is everywhere you can imagine and is an indispensable part of our everyday lives. ST Math has been a game changer for our kids.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Ordinarily, a drop in college remedial courses would herald an improvement in high school math learning. Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 19, 2016

moment about productive struggle—when we realized the truth about how our potential for growth and creativity is unleashed to the extent that we learn to persevere, figure things out on our own and bounce back from failure. By Lianna Nix Director, Rex Mill’s STEM Academy Program, Jonesboro, GA. I have seen tremendous improvement.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. Book Creator - A fantastic mobile (iOS/Chrome) app for creating stunning eBooks/presentations, that can be used for digital storytelling, project based learning, and more. It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

We have a way where we can do basically an old-school version of this demo in class and make it fun because students learn about alcohol chemistry. I also make an effort to learn student names. I can typically learn more than 200 in a 10-week period. That’s the basics behind the technology of a modern Breathalyzer device.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 1st, 2014 There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library. Andrew Carnegie The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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