eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. When done effectively, gamified learning can motivate even the most reluctant readers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Higher test scores are often used to measure student achievement, but we know true meaning-making and application of skills are measured in different ways. The sense of agency plays a pivotal role in cognitive development and includes recognizing oneself as the agent of behavior and an empowered independent.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop. Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts). In other words, compared to more traditional schools, these schools ROCK IT on many of the outcomes that we say that we are trying to achieve for our students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the gaming industry, the term usually refers to a game played on a console or other device that connects to a TV, a handheld player, a computer or mobile device, and most game developers would say a video game involves rules and mechanisms to achieve goals. Some games have the ability to increase learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This has left digital media and child development experts to extrapolate and hypothesize about the possible pitfalls and benefits. “If I believe that’s what’s motivating these parents.” Even data about adoption and use is lacking. What is the low-hanging fruit that doesn’t feel like it’s doing the most damage?” Ordoñez asks. “I

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