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Birmingham City Schools Leads Groundbreaking Research on Student Motivation and Math Achievement

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In partnership with sub-awardees WestEd and MIND Education , creators of ST Math , BCS is driving the development of real- time, data-driven insights to improve student engagement and learning outcomes. This three-year initiative is supported by a grant from the Gates Foundation.

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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

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It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.

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SMART Technologies Launches AI Assist in Lumio to Save Teachers Time

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This new offering integrates AI Assist, an advanced tool designed to save teachers time and elevate student engagement through AI-generated quiz-based activities and assessments. Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking.

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How Video Games Can Teach Reading Just as Well as Books

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After using the narrative-based digital game each week as their read aloud, instruction followed a similar format to traditional text read alouds. The class engaged in group discussions, reading response questions, and Kahoot quizzes to gauge comprehension.

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Making Video Games for Higher Ed Requires Major Investment. Is It Worth It?

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For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Such a huge investment on multiple fronts begs the question regarding ROI. “We 1 is “the sales question,” Squire explains.

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

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And rather than earning points based on the number of subject-matter questions they answer correctly, they advance based on their performance at other gameplay tasks. Earlier, only a third of students playing a game would re-attempt a question they got wrong. In a game, you are 100 percent OK with failing.

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How This Startup Leverages Games to Create a Love for the Natural Sciences

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It's fun remixing some of the game mechanics to create new educational experiences. 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.

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