eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

An average child today will have played 10,000 hours of video games before the age of 21. If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. So what if we make classrooms the game?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to this study , research shows that special education students benefit from educational technology, especially in concept teaching and in practice-feedback type instructional activities (Carter & Center, 2005; Hall, Hughes & Filbert, 2000; Hasselbring & Glaser, 2000).

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

Time and again, there have been education techniques and pedagogy developed that challenged conventional teaching and learning methods. As new approaches are tried, it is important to also analyze the reasons why children may be apprehensive about learning. When we are young, we are curious and excited to learn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

Teachable Machine is free to use and super accessible, making it a great resource for helping students discover what a learning machine is and how they work. Schoolai.com: Schoolai.com offers AI-driven tools designed to enhance the learning and teaching experience by providing customized learning paths and real-time feedback for students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2019

And when he’s not spending time with some of his favorites—StarCraft and Hearthstone—he’s teaching middle school students how to build their own. Looking at video games critically, he says, helps students understand what goes into game design, and what makes one game different from the next.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

To facilitate effective teaching and learning, modern schools must equip every classroom with interactive touchscreens and utilize gamification techniques. Understanding the Basics of Gamification in Education Gamification means adding interactive gaming elements to processes such as learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

After all, its easy to imagine how technologies such as AI tools, robots, VR headsets , and computers, for example, can be used to support learning in these settings. Get feedback, work out any kinks, and get it to the point where the teachers love it before expanding it to other classrooms and/or schools. Start small.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

K–12 Schools Should Teach Soft Skills to Prepare Students for the Future Workforce. While digital tools are woven into educational pedagogy nationwide, another component of learning may help educators give students advantages in a world not yet known to them. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 08/30/2018 - 17:18.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2016

New online professional development course focuses on increasing student achievement through engagement with game-based learning. The online professional development course focuses on helping teachers incorporate educational video games and applying game-based learning techniques in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

Highlights include: • Mobile and Video Content that allows students to access learning from anywhere and on any device, while providing more authentic ways of delivering students feedback. Learning Analytics to help keep students on track for success.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” These kids had spent all their free time at the retreat talking about online shooting-based video games,” says Manuj Dhariwal, laughing. The design is deliberate, say CoCo’s founders.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

Research formality ranges from classroom-based informal needs assessment and feedback regarding professional learning to high-level National Science Foundation-funded studies. Iterate on what works and learn from what doesn’t.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Research has shown our brains are “ wired for pleasure ,” and that games are an effective way to learn because they simulate adventure and keep our brains engaged and happy. But what exactly do we learn from them? The answer is likely yes, but, much like games themselves, it’s complicated.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

It’s one thing when master teachers successfully implement learning games in a carefully controlled research study. But engaging students through game-based learning (GBL) means little unless the games are easy to implement and effective where they matter most—in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2016

We’ve seen that Minecraft transcends the differences in teaching and learning styles and education systems around the world. It’s an open space where people can come together and build a lesson around nearly anything.”. MinecraftEDU began in 2011 and has reached thousands of classrooms in more than 40 countries.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2023

We’ve thus seen a fundamental shift in how high school students learn within the classroom setting. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the evolution of high school teaching styles to get an idea of just how far these changes can go! But what exactly does this mean for the future of our educations?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

If we want technology to finally transform education and teach the 21st century skills our students need to succeed, we need to design tools with the understanding that teachers are activators of learning and the secret to achieving better student outcomes. Additional Resources from eSpark Learning. Explore a demo of Frontier.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

Selecting a collaborative and nonviolent platform for introducing esports into the curriculum can stimulate creativity and teamwork among students, as evidenced by our choice to employ game-based learning tools for creative competitions. Design for diverse learners: We designed Level Up Los Angeles, focusing on UDL principles.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

The training content is broken up into short, personalized learning “pills” based on personal goals. As students answer questions, they collect points and receive formative feedback to develop critical-thinking skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

Twenty students used our new software all summer, providing us with great feedback and giving us the opportunity to fine-tune the curriculum before the start of the new school year,” said Winter. “We CodeCombat is also helping boost student interest in CS careers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Playing games in the classroom is not a new concept. So, it’s perhaps not surprising that there are game-based edtech companies hoping to leave a mark in classrooms. But what goes into building a game-based learning startup—or any edtech startup? It’s like a bridge to a bridge to a bridge,” Krajewski said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

The re-branded product still offers many of Classroom’s services, like organizing class assignments and providing feedback to students, but now the product will come with more collaborative messaging features (think Slack for Microsoft education). the game-based learning platform, is going mobile. WHO GIVES A KAHOOT?:

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Students can work together on digital platforms, sharing ideas and feedback in real-time, while teachers can provide immediate, constructive feedback, which can enhance student engagement and motivation. Teachers can create and manage assignments, distribute resources, and provide real-time feedback to students.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Do you start with a topic first or game mechanics? Michael Kasumovic We start with learning outcomes. We then go through our library of experiences and find a game mechanic that best matches the outcome we're trying to teach. How is Arludo transforming the ways that students learn? More from Michael Kasumovic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

This article is part of a series on innovative teaching methods in higher education. If the learning curve to just play the game is too steep, that will work against you. Start small: Game-based learning doesn’t have to be digital. Check back for more stories and a full guide in the coming weeks.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Games fulfill different core psychological needs. They play for a sense of challenge (competency), social interaction, consistent feedback and more. Games Make Us More Social Companies like Google are finding that SEL skills are more important to students’ success than the mastery of STEM subjects alone.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But conferences would not make it on my Top Ten Reasons I Like to Teach list. Too often we find ourselves repeating the same old feedback: “This is the grade. Whether you’re in a 1:1 device environment or using a new learning management system, parents will appreciate understanding the instructional tools their kids are using in class.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Math games have grown by leaps in the past six years. Among those at this year’s Expo: Researchers at the University of Oregon showed off Numbershire and KinderTek , two math games for young children that teach foundational skills with illustrations and evidence-based practices. Source: Mom of All Capes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They even requested feedback from me and their peers, very keen to root out any grammatical errors. Communication As mentioned earlier, Minecraft doesn’t feature much language, aside from some incidental vocabulary specific to the game.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. That information is then distilled into feedback, patterns and predictions that tutors can use during their in-person teaching session.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Planet3’s Formative Years Kelly founded Planet3 in 2013 to blend top-tier commercial game designers with instructional experts and create a digital platform to teach middle-school science. He based the content on the Next Generation Science Standards , a multi-state effort at K-12 science education content completed in 2013.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

For those of you that like synchronous conversation, Twitter chats can help you connect to others with similar interests as well as provide a great forum to ask questions and get feedback on ideas. If you’re looking for educators to follow, go no further than Educational Technology and Mobile Learning’s blog.

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