eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week’s newsfeeds are stuffed with announcements for finalists and honorees for both educators and vendors on the best and brightest developments for teaching and learning. The winners: Of course, we need to start with the most prestigious!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

You can take these courses for continuing education, salary advancement, or recertification. There’s gamification. So this work stems from my dissertation research which was an ethnography. Gamification versus Game-Based Learning. So gamification — those are those structures around games.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

As educators in the digital age, it is important that we embrace the power of play in our classrooms. One of the ways that we can redefine our practice is by using game education in our schools. Says Farber of Game Education; “I use games in social studies because the mechanics (e.g. Game #1 – Minecraft. Game #3 – Land of Venn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

This diversity of thought and experience should ensure that you’re getting a realistic sampling from across the education spectrum. For five years, we’ve highlighted some of the best and brightest blogs within K—12 education. Google’s education solutions just keep expanding. Computing Education Blog. Pull Quote.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

With the advent of each new technology—like AI, automation, VR/AR, and nanotechnology—comes economic shifts that demand different skills from employees and creates new challenges for both employers and educators. Incorporating gaming into education doesn’t necessarily mean more screen time. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

So we actually learned through Education Reimagined. We want our learners and their peers and educators and community members and family members to create relationships so that we can make learning a richer experience. We invited teachers to uncover the uncommon dots in education. Tell us about your learning beliefs. Lynn: Sure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent elementary NGSS engineering practices embedded in fun games Title : Simple Machines by Tinybop Summary : Excellent elementary NGSS engineering practices embedded in fun games Pros: Kids create and figure out simple machines on their own terms. By Common Sense Education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2015

In education, we tend to value a student’s ability to answer our questions. ” Its dice-form not only offers a whiz-bang manipulative, but also introduces a level of gamification and playful uncertainty into the process, and its open-ended and universal stems make it practical for a wide variety of classroom applications.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

Art Masters In Early Elementary Bulletin Board. The teacher made the writing outline, and her students colored the writing and the flower stems. Educators can make a bulletin board list of everything artists do. Educators can use this idea to keep learners busy or promote an art event. Art History Bulletin Board Ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Can education technology help put the brakes on summer backsliding? There are no fancy graphics, sound effects, scores, rewards or other gamification gewgaws. Last fall, she partnered with the Newark, New Jersey, public schools to pilot an introduction of the app to families in six elementary schools via parent-teacher conferences.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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. To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Definitions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

And that really was the motivation and the premise behind Potato Pirates — to try and provide a universal first step into the world of programming without having educators have to set up an entire class’ infrastructure. Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. Aditya: Exactly, exactly.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. Educators are constantly challenged to find ways to keep kids’ attention in class when, outside of school, their world is full of all kinds of highly compelling and visually stimulating media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The fourth annual Reform Symposium Free Online Conference (RSCON) starts this Friday, October 11th, running for three days and in conjunction with Connected Educator Month. Miguel Mendoza 3:00pm Educational Leadership: Creating the Conditions for Passion and Innovation - Chris Wejr Gamifying Your Class - Alfonso Gonzalez If you build it.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

2021 brought with it new COVID-19 variants, the dreaded school COVID quarantine, and renewed calls to support the nation’s educators, who have worked tirelessly (and constantly) to support students’ learning, social and emotional needs, and more. — Catherine Cahn, CEO, Twig Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. However, eventually, as post-stimulus costs begin to hit schools, digital, with its lower costs and higher margins, will be where districts and publishers come together to deliver engaging education with tighter budgets.

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