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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Technology might come in handy in this case. Contrary to conventional wisdom, technology is a friend, not a foe of books and reading. Authors threw in some gamification, as readers receive badges and rewards as they carry on with their reading. Less than 53% of American adults read at least one book for pleasure in 2019.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

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Seminars held online, are called webinars. Gamification and Virtual Reality. Gamification is a pedagogical approach embedding the elements of gaming within eLearning modules to impart learning through competitive game-like activities. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

The first time I tried gamification with my students was during a seminar on green marketing and consumerism. However, I wanted to make the morale of the seminar more memorable, so I invited them to play a game. The one-and-a half-hour seminar almost flew away. And now, story time! It was really simple.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

From lesson creation to assessment and gamification, there is something for K-12 schools, universities, vocational schools, and so on depending on the purpose of the conference. Just when you are starting to get excited about all the sessions and seminars and… there are hundreds of them and only a time machine could help at this point.

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Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

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The seeds of innovation are planted at a young age, and technological advances now provide learners of all ages the opportunity to be creators, builders, designers, producers and makers. in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (MEITE). I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me. We should be ok with it.

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14 Education Advancements in a Year

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The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. Greater acceptance of technology as a tool. Gamification of classes.

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What Role Should Students Play in Your Personalized Learning Implementation?

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Jennifer Bartell understood that the best way for her reading seminar students to overcome their academic struggles was by developing autonomy, but she feared relinquishing control of those already in danger of failing. There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process.