eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Key points: Harnessing the power of video games can foster a deeper, more meaningful educational experience 3 ways educators leverage gamification strategies The future of gamification For more news on gaming principles, visit eCN’s Teaching & Learning page Student engagement is vital for any educator throughout the length of a course.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Nice-to-have: Gamification While digital course gestures such as gamification and bright colors can catch your eye and make you want to press the purchase button, remember your goal. Reading levels: Tailor courses to accommodate varying reading levels to ensure all students can understand and benefit from the content.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. The gamification of incivility The concept of gamification has existed on the fringes of educational innovations for many years. Modern students dont want to read generic texts about things that happened 10 or 20 years ago.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The gamification of incivility The concept of gamification has existed on the fringes of educational innovations for many years. Modern students don’t want to read generic texts about things that happened 10 or 20 years ago. Superintendents see it. Teachers see it. Students see it. So, what’s going on? Personalized learning 2.0

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2023

MONTREAL – Paper , the leading Educational Support System (ESS), today announced that it has acquired Readlee, an innovative learning tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and speech recognition technology to help students improve their reading skills. A lifetime of opportunity is lost when a person can’t read.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2019

Read more: Defining high-quality project-based learning. Promote gamification and movement by designing digital “breakouts” for teams of students, or let students collaborate to create their own. Below, we’ve gathered a handful of “add-on” tools for project-based learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

includes new student and educator interfaces, advancements in content recommendations based upon individual student interests and Lexile reading level, gamification, and improved enhancements to the state-of-the-art monitoring and reporting functions. myON has announced a redesign of its personalized literacy environment for PreK-12.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. Beanstack helps educators and librarians encourage reading by making it easy to create and promote reading challenges for their communities. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

Adaptive learning technologies, gamification, and interactive, AI-driven projects can captivate students’ interest in ways previously unimaginable, making learning more engaging and personalized. Policymakers agree, and have already introduced legislation highlighting the importance of teaching these skills in classrooms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. From microschools and online learning to microlearning and gamification, 2024 is going to be the year of nontraditional learning models. On the 9th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on major K-12 education trends.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2023

In March of 2021, Nearpod was acquired by Renaissance, a global leader in assessment, reading, and math solutions for pre-K–12 schools and districts. Flocabulary offers educational hip-hop videos and research-based curricular tools to increase performance by emphasizing vocabulary and literacy. To learn more about Nearpod, visit [link].

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

We can assess their understanding of what they read and their ability to write through shorter bursts of writing. “We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

“This is a perfect merger of capabilities,” says Al Noyes, CEO of Walch, “Walch brings a platform that has been used for over 50 years and now we are adding the engagement applications for reading and writing in the classroom.” BW Walch has over 1m registered users of its technology solutions combined.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

TeacherMade Game Quizzes Gimkit Kahoot Quizizz Quizlet Live Puzzles Minecraft Resources Resources on Gamification Duolingo –gamifying language learning Gamification how-to –90 videos How to Gamify your Classroom–Paul Anderson Quest to Learn –a gamified classroom Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

.” Finalists for the Supes’ Choice Awards are chosen based on a demonstrated commitment to student outcomes, innovation and ingenuity, client support, interactivity, and engagement.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Believe it or not, writing is a natural fit for gamification techniques. Read on; we have the tips you need. You’ve surely noticed how your class gets engaged as soon as you introduce a game into the teaching process. The students get competitive, but that’s a healthy competition you want to nurture. Understand the problem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The article’s about 1000 words and well worth the read: Simulations as a Teaching Strategy – Everything You Need to Know. In the diverse and ever-evolving world of simulation, there’s no doubt that tactics such as gamification continue to have a positive impact across a broad range of industries and activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

At some point, gamification was going to be the answer. The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. It was called PSI, or Personalized System of Instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

We recently read the following comments in a discussion section of an educational article highlighting the need for anti-racist training for teachers: “I teach in a predominantly white neighborhood so I don’t really need diverse science texts” and “I am not racist so I don’t need anti-racist training.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

Gamification Tools Gamification tools are revolutionizing education by turning learning into a series of challenges and games. Plus, 90% of people admit that gamification increases productivity , so just imagine what it could do for the students in your classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

A few years ago, I read the book Teach Like A Pirate by Dave Burgess, and the ideas resonated with me and changed my perspective on instructional practices. Incorporating elements of gamification, such as unlocking clues or prizes, enhances motivation and bolsters learning outcomes. in teaching.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Text-to-Speech E-Books and Audiobooks Make Reading Easier. Text-to-speech assistive technology is designed to help children with visual impairment or other disabilities that impact their ability to read. Gamification Offers an Alternative Approach to Learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A hundred years after that, Gore Vidal bemoaned: “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. The first few explain elections in general and the next teach the process through gamification. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The science of reading is another big piece of modern education. The science of reading is a multidisciplinary field that explores the cognitive processes involved in reading and seeks evidence-based strategies to improve literacy instruction. This information can inform instructional strategies and interventions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

Gamification is the idea of adding game-like elements to non-game contexts or environments—the classroom, for example. Gamification can also help educators foster the type of student-teacher relationships that set the table for good classroom management. Why gamifying your rollout may be the key.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A hundred years after that, Gore Vidal bemoaned: “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. The first few explain elections in general and the next teach the process through gamification. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2016

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to browse eSchool News and read up on other news you may have missed. The future of education, including citizen science apps, increases in gamification and game-based learning, and artificial intelligence’s impact on the education industry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2018

Gamification in a virtual classroom. Gamification in a virtual classroom. Gamification is one of the best methods to increase online peer connectivity and social learning. Read Jacqui’s tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Discussion Boards. Panel Discussion. Virtual Classroom + e-Breakout rooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. For more detail, read “ How to Use Augmented Reality “ Examples. More on SAMR and Gamification. Read Jacqui’s tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Maybe Vocabulary.com and its spelling games come to mind next.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

Students should be able to recognize: if what they are reading makes logical sense, if the information is consistent with sources they already know to be reliable, and. The idea of gamification, or learning academic content through game elements, is one way to try to increase student interest in and retention of ideas concerning this topic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I think you’ll like her choices: Not every student is motivated to read—as you, as an educator, know better than anyone else. Luckily, technology not only comes as second nature to the digital citizens in your classroom, but engages readers of every level, motivating them to read. Whooo’s Reading. Bookopolis.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2016

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. Read on for more: Transforming media centers into makerspaces. Believe it or not, writing is a natural fit for gamification techniques. What do they have in common?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2016

A hundred years later, Gore Vidal bemoaned: “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. The first five explain elections in general and the next three teach the process through gamification. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Gamification—adding game-like elements to non-game contexts—can be an ideal way to teach keyboarding skills. No longer focused on how we’re writing, we can now worry about what we’re writing—and hopefully produce something worth reading. Read a success story from National Heritage Academies in Michigan.

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