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Angry Birds to Minecraft: Game Dynamics and Learning
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20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools | Ditch That Textbook
Google Apps are collaborative, which makes them highly powerful. They offer opportunities for students to engage unlike ever before. Here are 20 ideas.See it on Scoop.it, via fun learning
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Intrinsic Motivation: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Designing Learning...
Engagement. It’s the one word you’ll see over and over again reading about gamification, game-based learning, and serious games.magnus sandberg's insight:Contains some very concrete advice on what...
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Games Can Advance Education: A Conversation With James Paul Gee - KQED (blog)
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What universities have in common with record labels
If you spent the 1990s plucking songs from a stack of cassettes to make the perfect mixtape, you probably welcomed innovations of the next decade that served your favorite albums up as individual...
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Literature, Ethics, Physics: It’s All In Video Games At This Norwegian School
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Tip for Getting More Organized: Don't
How much time do you spend each day getting better organized? Cut it in half. When it comes to investing time, thought and effort into productively organizing oneself, less is more. In fact, not only...
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Embracing Messy Learning
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SMART LÆRING kick-off
I dag braker det løs. I dag starter den første og kanskje viktigste gruppen som skal arbeide med kurset SMART LÆRING utover høsten. Dette er en variant tilpasset ansatte og studenter ved Program...
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Gaming rhetoric: The Stanley Parable in the classroom
I teach a freshman-level composition course at a state university in Georgia as part of fulfilling my graduate assistantship. The focus of this course is primarily rhetoric. There was a day on the...
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Classcraft - Make learning an adventure
Classcraft is a free online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together in the classroom. Acting as a gamification layer around any existing curriculum, the game transforms...
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6 Great tools for content curation - Daily Genius
"I read recently that content curation is dead. I have a few different arguments against this concept, but for now, I’ll keep it short and sweet: Content curation is not dead, and while the debate over...
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Minecraft for Moms - What You Need to Know - Sunshine and Hurricanes
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4 simple steps to ensure you'll never, ever be tricked by an internet hoax again
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Top 10 tips to learn a language
Let this master guide you through the easy way to learn multiple languages with Babbel. Try it out now!magnus sandberg's insight:Great tips for anyone wanting to learn a new language. And for school...
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MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning
The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning started as a series of blog posts written by Jordan Shapiro with support from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Games and Learning...
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Google Earth Pro is now free
"Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using Google Earth Pro for everything from planning hikes to placing solar panels on rooftops. Google...
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Moovly - Create Animated Content like a Pro
Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards.magnus sandberg's insight:Looks fun and...
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March Blogging U. Courses: Blogging and Photo 101
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Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff
found that the notion of developing a growth mindset is as equally applicable to staff and teacher performance as it is to students. This article begins with a brief discussion about the difference...
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