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

ED Surge

Screenshot of the CoCo demo video. In CoCo’s demo video, all the different use cases for the platform seem geared toward users building projects together, like coding and playing a game live. The platform does have an element, “CoCo cards,” that might have been designed to help students collect points.

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Why Seamless Communication — in the Classroom and Beyond — Matters

ED Surge

Justin Hall, who teaches math at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School , understands this need well. A 16-year veteran middle school teacher, Hall is a big proponent of increasing access to information for all education stakeholders. Watch a short demo video to see how an intuitive interface saves educators time.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

ED Surge

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything!

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5 Steps to Ensure Your Classroom Technology Refresh Delivers

ED Surge

For example, when Corbett School District was building a new middle school, the superintendent and technology director reflected on the student and teacher behaviors they wanted to encourage rather than focusing on specific classroom technology solutions from the start. Request a demo.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

The moment a teacher opens the door to their classroom at the beginning of a new school year, if they understand learner variability, they will see a design challenge, not a student challenge. See a prototype demo of the solution! The film shows how, after coaching, one teacher taps the research to turn her class around.

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Understanding and Addressing the Surge of Chronic Absenteeism

ED Surge

. — O'Brien What patterns of chronic absenteeism exist within your school community, such as specific grade levels or student populations? One thing that stands out is the percentage of elementary and middle school students who are chronically absent: around 20 percent.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school. Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. School just isn’t for me. I hate coming to school. I hate waking up early. I hate homework.”. “It’s actually a lot of fun.