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Enhancing Civic Education with Game-Based Learning

EdTechTeacher

We are experiencing a rising tide of advocacy for high quality civic education across the nation. There is also increasing interest and promising research around the impact that gamification can play in instructional design. Therefore, how might we leverage the power of gamification and game-based learning to enhance civic education?

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Enhancing Civic Education with Game-Based Learning

EdTechTeacher

We are experiencing a rising tide of advocacy for high quality civic education across the nation. There is also increasing interest and promising research around the impact that gamification can play in instructional design. Therefore, how might we leverage the power of gamification and game-based learning to enhance civic education?

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

Edsurge

Further behind were gamification, micro-learning, in-person learning and artificial intelligence (none of these were defined in the report). The full surveys—with a lot more detail—were done by The Harris Poll on behalf of the policy and advocacy nonprofit and include 750 full-time K-12 teachers and 1,725 parents of children ages 5-17.

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How to Find Learning Opportunities in Video Games Kids and Teens Love

Graphite Blog

This means games that feature less gamification and content drills and instead have absorbing stories and settings or compelling simulations and systems. Students will learn about the power of community, advocacy, and responsibility when it comes to tackling big issues like climate change. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

This approach encourages self-reflection, self-advocacy, and a sense of ownership over one’s education. Student-Led Conferences: Shifting towards student-led conferences where students take an active role in discussing their progress, achievements, and goals with teachers and parents. Platforms like Kahoot!

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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

Gamification. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. This year, I asked folks in my network about their plans on this Padlet and I scanned the blogs I regularly follow. This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Engagement.