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

ED Surge

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Not an ideal conversation right after sessions on mindfulness, but the husband-and-wife researcher duo did take away two key lessons from the students’ candor. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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How to Start Class with Opening Questions

Cool Cat Teacher

Last year when I needed to take a college CEU course, I chose Advancement Courses and learned so much about teaching computer science in the classroom. Let's talk about some of your current research that's going to relate to student engagement, both face to face and online. It was a class called “EdTech and Design.”

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Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Robotics

Robot Lab

According to job statistics by Pew Research Center , Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in various STEM occupations, only making up 8-9% of STEM jobs. By Carol Grace. Compared to other careers, underrepresentation is rampant in STEM-related roles.