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5 reasons why game design is the best way to teach STEAM skills

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Students often rely on each other’s ideas and feedback. By making game development part of the curriculum, we give students the tools they need to thrive in a digital world. There is nothing more engaging than seeing the game you built come to life. Even when it fails, the surprise is motivating–it’s a mystery to solve.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Here are three key expectations that are redefining modern education: Interactive Learning : Students expect dynamic, interactive lessons that incorporate multimedia elements and real-time feedback. Moreover, gamification elements in educational content will drive motivation, encouraging you to tackle challenges with enthusiasm.

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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code. In particular, the CoderZ platform offers a complete curriculum for programming cyber robots.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scratch projects are also released to everyone on Scratch for feedback, comments or “remixing,” but on CoCo, projects remain within a digital “corridor” curated by an educator.

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How to choose the right digital courses for your students

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Comprehensive digital curriculum is designed with the end goal in mind, based on Understanding by Design, an award-winning book and theory by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe that focuses on the benefits of backward planning. A high-quality digital course catalog should also meet the needs of a diverse audience.

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9 ways collaborative learning benefits teachers and students

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While new and emerging technologies can feel like a hurdle at times, there is also much that can be gained by incorporating them into our curriculum. This does not mean teachers have to be experts in using all technologies, but teachers should be willing to incorporate technology into their everyday curriculum delivery.

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7 ways AI will make a positive impact on classroom teaching

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One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. To hit the curriculum goals, teachers must set a pace for their classes that aims to hit specific lesson delivery targets during the school year. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.

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