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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Digital Literacy While players in a school environment can turn to each other for assistance and support, they may also visit the numerous Minecraft-dedicated wikis, blogs or YouTube channels for inspiration.

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An audience with.

Learning with 'e's

I did some early studies into the effects of this when I implemented a programme wide use of wikis in 2006. I published the results of the study in 2009, revealing that when they were aware of an audience, students raised their game. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. I decided to take this concept a step further.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether my class is uploading their Scratch video games, or linking to their website efolios, we post our group work on the class wiki. Tip: See the sandbox lesson plan and rubric I use to introduce wikis to my class. For this reason, it is likely more important that kids learn to program apps than make web pages. .

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future. Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education.

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The hidden audience effect

Learning with 'e's

Speakers included Derek Robertson, Steve Dale, James Langley, Chris Mayoh and Julian Wood, who presented variously on games based learning, e-safeguarding, embedding the iPad across the curriculum, the use of QR codes and mobile devices in education, and how to engage readers with digital texts.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - ISTE Unplugged + Hack Education - AERO - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Students Driving Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] Introduction to Mind Amplifiers June 11 - July 10, 2014: A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. See how they identified the goals of the game and what went into the development and evaluation of teaching resources. Join the webinar here.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.