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Top 8 Benefits of Educational Games in K12 Learning

Hurix Digital

For example, upon completion of maths problems in a textbook, young learners can reinforce what they have learned by playing an engaging maths video game. Consider, for example, a history game designed by one of the leading K12 ed-tech companies. In the game, student players are tasked with settling a new colony.

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How to Link Game Mechanics to the Learning Experience

Knowledge Guru

Game mechanics are the rules players follow… and rules the game follows. The secret is to have players complete the same mental tasks they will do in the real world. If you want to design a learning game, you need to know about game mechanics and game elements. This post is about mechanics. Your learners are mostly college-aged.

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eLearning Gamification: How to Implement Gamification in Your Learning Strategy

eLearningMind

Games provide feedback as players demonstrate their mastery. Brains love to multitask, but multitasking can hurt training efforts. Examples of Gamification in Corporate Training. Here are a few examples of gamification training we created for our clients. Instant Feedback. Social Learning. Meaningful Goals.

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eLearning Gamification: How to Implement Gamification in Your Learning Strategy

eLearningMind

Games provide feedback as players demonstrate their mastery. Brains love to multitask, but multitasking can hurt training efforts. Examples of Gamification in Corporate Training. Here are a few examples of gamification training we created for our clients. . Instant Feedback. Social Learning. Meaningful Goals.

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10 Things the Motorola Xoom does Better than the iPad

mLearning Revolution

Multitasking. Not too bad but I still prefer the Xoom for multitasking. Another thing I really like about Honeycomb on the Motorola Xoom is the three persistent virtual navigation buttons, which help me go back to my previous task, return to my Home screen and the multitasking button respectively. Adobe Flash Player 10.2.

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eLearning Podcasts (and a few others)

The eLearning Coach

Sample episodes include: Being on Time, Choosing a Tool to Mange Your To-Do List, Dealing with Distractions and Easy Multitasking. I’ve been happy with my inexpensive Dynex cassette adapter , which seems to work with all types of MP3 players (okay, so my car is so old it has a tape player).

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

Oh how I miss the days I would work on a task — writing a short story, drawing a portrait, for example — completely uninterrupted. listen to music in a similar fashion, sitting there, or dancing around, or, wait for it, stopping and starting it on my cassette player to jot down the lyrics. I even seemed to (gasp!)