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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. That’s the engineering side of my brain. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Nonsense, Seymour said: “The language of these ads betrays the way in which this software throws away what is best about the contribution of game designers, and replaces it with what is worst about the contribution of school curriculum designers.”. Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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10 Ways to Make School Fun Again

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Recommended Tools Kahoot and Quizizz: Great for quizzes that feel like competitive games. When given the space, students can be the most imaginative curriculum designers in the room. Within two weeks, homework submission rates improved by 40 percent, and students were voluntarily staying after class to complete the final level.

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Do Virtual Schools Flatten Cultural Identity? Or Expand It?

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Rethinking Curriculum: From Global to Glocal One of the most powerful levers of cultural identity in K12 online education is the curriculum. Traditional schools often teach a national curriculum designed to align with the values, history, and priorities of a specific country. High School Diploma, IB, or British curricula.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

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Used by over 2,000 teachers, Singaporean startup Doyobi offers video lessons, a custom-built virtual environment to use in class and content like quizzes to make teacher’s online sessions more interactive. This helps teachers self-reflect and adapt to their students’ preferences, but only when educators know how to use the analytics.