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Game-Based Learning is Essential in STEM

CSTEM

We can’t assume every student has access to a computer or the internet. With only 46% of children having access to the technology required for video game-based learning, it is difficult to implement fully. They collaborate by sharing tips, tricks, and solutions. In a school where every student receives a laptop, this is no problem.

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Building Born Accessible Games

Magic EdTech

Gamification is the application of game elements and game-inspired design to learning content. The initial goal of gamification is to immerse students in course content and encourage collaboration among students. Gamification for an Inclusive Learning Environment. Taking Learning Games Beyond 2022.

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Building Born Accessible Games

Magic EdTech

Gamification is the application of game elements and game-inspired design to learning content. The initial goal of gamification is to immerse students in course content and encourage collaboration among students. Gamification for an Inclusive Learning Environment. Taking Learning Games Beyond 2022.

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What you Need to Know about K-12 Fundraising Tech

Technology Tidbits

Encourage a little friendly competition by choosing online donation tools that offer gamification elements such as leaderboards. Because your online fundraising software creates shareable pages that work equally well for any type of a-thon fundraiser, you can even host multiple fundraisers of this style!

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Evaluating Learning Solutions for Student Success

Magic EdTech

Engagement – Does the software support interactive learning formats like simulations and gamification? Hardware considerations are an equally important facet of EdTech as software. Accessibility – Does the learning product serve students with a wide variety of abilities equally? Says a Brookings article.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. This equivalence has many consequences. And this is effectively where computational irreducibility comes from. We’ve been talking about “jobs”.

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Accessibility in E-learning Is Non-Negotiable

Magic EdTech

When most of the learning has to happen remotely, lack of a11y of your course content means a lack of access to education for students with disabilities. Today, e-learning has revolutionized how content is accessed, consumed, discussed, and shared by online learners. Universal Design Basics: New Accessibility Standards.