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

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. — Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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Why Career Exploration Shouldn’t Wait Until High School

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However, with the rapid evolution of industries and shifting workforce demands, we must introduce career exploration earlier before students even enter high school. The Case for Starting Career Exploration in Middle School Many states are now mandating career exploration as early as eighth grade, for good reason.

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Digital Citizenship Week: What to Teach When–a video

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Grade-Specific Topics : Digital citizenship is taught progressively from kindergarten to middle school. Ongoing Education : Digital citizenship concepts are reviewed annually to reinforce knowledge. summarized by NoteGPT This video is from a series I taught for school districts.

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New Research Proves Game-Based Learning Works—Here's Why That Matters

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This is how knowledge progresses. The sample size was large enough—more than 1,000 students in seven states and in schools with differing student bodies, socioeconomic factors, and geographical locations—to answer the hypothesis in a statistically significant manner. Quest to Learn: Developing the School for Digital Kids.

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3 Websites to Gamify Your Math Class

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Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Fee or subscription. Click the link for more detail.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

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I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! What can we do better next time?

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Is Assessment Ready to Move Beyond Standardized Tests? These MIT Researchers Think So.

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Playful assessment, not to be mistaken for gamification, seeks to capture student mastery in many of the areas that are hard to gauge. For the most progressive schools, however, that won’t be necessary. Albemarle’s Community Middle school is proof. They’re calling it “playful assessment.”

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