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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

ED Surge

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. A softer, more nuanced form of gamification is on the rise.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

At MIT, Ed invented and taught a freshman course on “Problem Solving”. He told me many times one of his favorite “problem exercises”. In 1972, for example, as a kind of spinoff from his Problem Solving course, he formed a group called “The Army to End the War” (i.e. But he did do other things.