Educational Games & Gamification

Salman Khan’s Inspiring One World Schoolhouse

May 19, 2013

The first in a series of articles reviewing this look at how the Khan Academy came to be, and why these ideas can truly change education. I am currently reading Sal Khan’s book The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined and it didn’t take very long to come to feel strongly that this book should be [...]

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Moby Max is a Proven Adaptive Learning Toolset with Differentiated Curriculum for K-8 Students

May 5, 2013

Moby Max adds individualized, adaptive learning for writing, reading, and language skills to its powerful math skills platform. As you might imagine, EmergingEdTech receives an endless stream of requests to write about education and instruction oriented software products and services. One of the first things I look for when considering these submissions is what teachers [...]

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8 Research Findings Supporting the Benefits of Gamification in Education

December 5, 2012

There are myriad ways in which “gamification” can play a positive role in the educational setting. On Sunday, Tess Pajaron sent me a great article from Open Colleges about “The Virtues of Daydreaming And 30 Other Surprising (And Controversial) Research Findings About How Students Learn”. One thing that really struck me about this article is [...]

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Improving Instruction – Increasing Immersion With the iPad in the Foreign Language Classroom

December 2, 2012

15+ Apps that can Facilitate the Vital Element of Immersion in Foreign Language Teaching Since my school piloted its 1:1 iPad initiative in the spring of 2011, I have been thinking of ways to incorporate it into my lessons. I searched for and visited websites that touted lists of applicable apps, did searches in the [...]

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8 Highly Recommended iPad Apps for Homeschoolers

August 26, 2012

A selection of apps covering a range of grade levels and academic subjects, great for home schoolers. Guest post by Chris Martin. Homeschooling your children requires discipline, hard work, and patience – and a whole lot of time and effort. Thankfully, technology has made this undertaking a bit easier for parents. Personal digital devices like [...]

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Tailoring the Classroom of the Future With the Fabric of the Past

August 19, 2012

“The world’s most ambitious mobile learning company” is introducing engaging learning apps based on sound pedagogy. Guest post from Matt Meyers. As someone whose job it is to reinvent the way we use technology in our classroom, a lot of people ask me some interesting questions. One of my favorites is, “how do you keep [...]

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‘Accelerate’ your Flipped Classroom with the Standard Deviants

August 1, 2012

Learning resources like Accelerate can be a great supplement to online lectures and other approaches to ‘the flip’, saving content creation time while delivering engaging videos and good assessment tools. Guest post from Caitlin O’Connor. The “Standard Deviants” have been around for over twenty years, creating educational videos renowned for their quirky and humorous approach [...]

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TechChange – Enabling Social Change With Innovate Uses of Education Technology

July 29, 2012

TechChange is the “The Institute for Technology and Social Change”, and they are at the forefront of combining technology and education to facilitate social change across the globe. TechChange.org has been successfully leveraging technology in educational applications to help groups of people throughout the world bring about social change where it is needed. TechChange President [...]

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Simbound – a digital marketing simulation that’s a great interactive for marketing courses

July 25, 2012

I couldn’t resist sharing this fun sounding interactive game for marketing students. Guest post by Louis Havriliuc. Have you ever wished you could give your students the chance to practice different e-marketing skills and techniques? It would be nice to offer them the opportunity to work on real company accounts and face real situations but [...]

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4 Ways to use Online Resources to Keep Advanced Students Engaged and Learning

July 11, 2012

Today’s technologies offer many resources to keep active young minds busy and learning! Post collaboratively written with Abbas Hussain. Just yesterday morning, there was an article in USA Today discussing how many of today’s students don’t feel particularly challenged by their school work. In this technology-enabled age, it is easier than ever to give advanced students the [...]

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