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Engaging the reluctant reader: Benefits of gamified learning in literacy education

eSchool News

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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Shift to Self-assessment

Catlin Tucker

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. The beauty of self-assessment lies in the empowerment it provides learners.

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Why educational robotics is a critical STEM learning tool

eSchool News

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

eSchool News

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores

Dangerously Irrelevant

Over 920,000 students participated last fall. The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores above some politically-determined line of ‘proficiency.’ The latest results are available from the annual Gallup poll of middle and high school students. download a larger version of this image ]. .

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3 ways to build engagement in STEM classrooms

eSchool News

Students often learn best by doing and by being active participants in the learning process. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). This keeps them motivated and having fun, while they continue to learn and explore. Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement.

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University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games

Edsurge

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. Gameful Design. That is a key part of this.”

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