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Simulations as a Teaching Strategy

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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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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. They aren’t used only in the computer lab, but in every class students take.

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The Impact of Game-Based Learning Solutions on Critical Thinking

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Gamification in e-learning can draw children to an immersive experience in a secure, enjoyable, and playful setting because it is linked to less exhaustion and more relaxation. Computer games empower understudies to connect socially while at the same time fostering critical thinking abilities.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. More on SAMR and Gamification. Maybe Vocabulary.com and its spelling games come to mind next. Breakout EDU. What more could you ask?

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Website Review: Prodigy Game

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support the ‘4 C’s’–creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration. I’m a big believer in the gamification of education; Prodigy makes that work brilliantly for math. are not distracting or overwhelming in colors, music, or activity. positive parent reports. encourage independence.

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4 Game-Based Learning Solutions to Enhance Critical Thinking

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Gamification in e-learning can draw children to an immersive experience in a secure, enjoyable, and playful setting because it is linked to less exhaustion and more relaxation. Computer games empower understudies to connect socially while at the same time fostering critical thinking abilities.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. This modeled not just problem solving but critical thinking. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. They are life long learners. They were problem solvers.