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How Gimkit engages my students

eSchool News

“Unlike other platforms, Gimkit allows students to earn virtual currency for every correct answer, which they can use to purchase power-ups, adding a competitive edge that keeps students motivated.” Question Breakdown: This part is very powerful. It shows how everyone did on each question you asked. What is Gimkit?

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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. Defending Multiple-Choice To be fair, not everyone is so down on multiple choice.

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Stay Active at Home With These 6 Fun AR / VR Apps

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The free app is an incredible new resource for your classroom as your students can make and create, while being motivated to get up and move to expand their inventory. In my pursuit to “level up,” I was motivated to walk miles to reach the latest mob , or creature.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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Implementing Relationship-Rich Education: Theory to Practice

Scholarly Teacher

During the first week of the semester, students were informed of the rationale for these assessments: to enhance motivation for engaging purposefully with course material. Importantly, not every quiz was collaborative to deter less-motivated team members from taking advantage of more responsible team members.

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