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MAY 13, 2024

By enabling teachers to craft or curate videos tailored to their curriculum, these tools make complex subjects more digestible and engaging for students. Through interactive lessons, they can tackle real-world problems, like learning how to use a proxy with Selenium , enhancing their problem-solving skills.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Simulations and games have grown from rote drills using a computer to challenging learning experiences for students that hone problem-solving and critical thinking skills. This is certainly prominent in the workplace, where some 90% of employees say that gamification makes them better at their job and more productive at work.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Young learners can participate in a variety of math-based activities and challenges that improve their problem-solving skills while making the process enjoyable. It’s an example of how gamification is ideal for encouraging learners , especially those studying remotely.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Problem solving is integral to learning. Play is the new teaching though it’s beenrelabeled ‘gamification’. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. I know—this is a lot.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Solutions to this problem abound but one of the most popular with K-16 educators — because it works — is to gamify learning. Wikipedia defines “gamification” as: “an educational approach to motivate students to learn by using video game design and game elements in learning environments. Units are modular.

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JULY 27, 2015

Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. They were problem solvers. I often heard, ‘if I tweak it here, I can solve this problem’ They are inquirers. This modeled not just problem solving but critical thinking.

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