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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

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Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform. 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.

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How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

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As an example inspired by my time as a social studies teacher, instead of asking students to write a paragraph about continuity and change in a historical era, you could have them choose an era, pick a topic that shows continuity, and design an imaginary propaganda poster from that period. It removes that fear of the blank canvas.

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Watch Out For These 3 Mistakes You’re Making During Distance Teaching

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But sometimes, distance learning can take an “app-centric” approach, where students spend more time watching instructional videos and answering multiple-choice questions than talking about concepts with their peers and teachers.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! But how can we integrate more of these skills into core academic classes such as English, algebra, physics and social studies? Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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Kids Discover Online unveils custom assessments feature

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Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

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To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class

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Although this list is specifically being written for a math classroom, the nice thing about Nearpod is that they have a library of lessons that covers other subjects as well like ELA, Science, Social Studies, and even Digital Citizenship.

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