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How Game-Based Learning Develops Real-World Skills

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Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. And that desire for change drew Vallon to Quest to Learn , a public 6-12 school in New York City focused on game-based learning.

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?How Game-Based Learning Encourages Growth Mindset

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What’s more, game-based learning (GBL) can address some of the most common roadblocks encountered by math teachers and students alike. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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Coding, Creativity and the New Digital Fluency

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As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. The Creativity Challenge in Computer Science Education Creativity often declines as students progress through school.

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Read to Lead free web-based curriculum

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Read to Lead is a 100% free and proven blended learning solution that leverages game-based learning to help students in grades 5-9 build reading, writing, and leadership skills. If students read their way through 12 episodes, that’s equivalent to completing a middle school chapter book!

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Can Designing Video Games Help Kids Gain Hard and Soft Skills?

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

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The system enables users to share or swap bits of code — just as they might pass crayons to each other if they were sitting at the same crafts table — to build an online game together, create artwork or make music. There’s even an option to write stories together. But CoCo is a departure from Scratch in a few crucial ways.

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GlassLab Set Out to Prove Games Could Assess Learning. Now It’s Shutting Down.

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million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment). middle-school market.

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