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For those teachers doing a little holiday planning for next year! Enjoy!

Pursuing Quests: How Digital Games Can Create a Learning Journey The ability to design classes as games has opened up options to teachers interested in framing learning as a quest.

Teachers and parents, this is the week to get your kids involved in the Hour of Code! No experience needed and incredibly fun; Star Wars, Minecraft, Frozen, there's something for everyone. Check it out!

The Hour of Code is here The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries and over 40 languages. Ages 4 to 104.

You can do this, new teachers!!

Hey, New Teacher, Don't Quit. It Will Get Better One new teacher in 10 will quit by the end of the first year. One teacher coined a phrase that explains why: Dark, Evil Vortex Of Late September, October and November, or DEVOLSON.

How to be a better teacher by giving up control...

How I am learning to give up control and trust my students | CTQ Posted by Dave Orphal on Friday, 08/28/2015 This summer I was in the AVID Summer Institute and I raved on this blog about the awesomeness that is Socratic Seminar. Well, our first week back to school isn’t yet done, and my Modern American History classes have each already done their first. In this p…

Loved engaging with these amazing teachers from Mexico yesterday in Quest2Teach!

Unique partnership between ASU, Mexico helps train English teachers In what is the first-ever partnership between an American university and the Mexican Ministry of Public Education, 194 English teachers came to Arizona State University from Mexico for teacher trainin

Welcome back to school to you and your students! Here's some great new apps to start your year off right...

8 new apps to jumpstart the school year Everyone loves apps. The key for educators, however, is to find budget-friendly apps that go beyond the cool factor to enhance learning. Here are a few of our expert members’ top suggestions for new...

Even if you'll never play Carnegie Hall you can still lead an amazing garage band! Here's properties to focus on in becoming a better teacher.

The 4 Properties of Powerful Teachers Even if you weren’t born with some of these qualities, you can develop them.

It's almost !! What will you do to celebrate? PBS has some great suggestions!

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Our friends at Quest2Learn have developed 7 principles of Game-Like Learning. This is what engaged and purposeful learning is all about!

Institute of Play on Twitter “Everything we’ve learned at over 7 years leads to this: 7 principles of game-like learning ”

Go ASU and MLFTC! Climbing up the rankings again. Our graduate education programs rank 17th nationally!

ASU graduate education programs rank 17th nationally | ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University continues to rise in rankings of the nation’s top education graduate programs, climbing to No. 17. The 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings, released today, listed ASU’s Teachers College as 17th among 246 public and…

Wondering how to navigate all the various games available for teaching and learning? Here's a list of top games, Teacher-tested, kid-approved...

Great Teacher-tested Games to Engage Your Students December 7, 2014 Games can be fun and addicting. Well-designed educational games can make the act of learning just as fun and addicting. Here are some teacher-tested games to engage your learners and get them craving more. Parents may like these for holiday enrichment too.

Great advice here for bringing games to your classroom, helping your students become designers, and using games as assessment. Enjoy!

Games in Education: Teacher Takeaways Matt Farber shares his observations from the Games in Education symposium, where he learned about students as designers, assessment possibilities, and adaptive video games.

Great interactive presentation at the Association of Teacher Educators conference in Phoenix last week! Many new collaborations in the works. Thanks for such positive and enthusiastic feedback!

"You essentially learn by doing, since the game offers a first-hand experiential involvement crucial to learning, and the game play engages players socially, emotionally and cognitively.”

Why gamification aids effective learning - IT-Online The increasing importance of technology in organisations has opened up new avenues in business, not just in the way in which we work – such as bring your own device (BYOD), which allows workers to be far more mobile and not tethered to the desk from nine to five – but also in how new employees are r…

gamesandlearning.org’s Top Trends of 2014 | Games and Learning | We have spent the last year reporting on a lot of developments affecting the learning game industry — from the purchase of Minecraft by Microsoft to the launch of SimCityEDU to the growing phenomena of Clever. With 2014 drawing to a close, we thought we would highlight a few of the key trends we have seen emerging this last year.

gamesandlearning.org’s Top Trends of 2014 We have spent the last year reporting on a lot of developments affecting the learning game industry -- from the purchase of Minecraft by Microsoft...

Edudemic has curated a great set of resources for Game-Based Education. Check them out!

The 23 Best Game-Based Education Resources for 2014 | Edudemic Edudemic has covered game-based learning and gamification in the classroom on numerous occasions in the past. When learning becomes a game, it’s an enjoyable, effective experience for students and teachers alike. We’ve curated 23 of the best game-based education resources for 2014. If your class has…

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning | MindShift | One day, Adam Holman decided he was fed up with trying to cram knowledge into the brains of the high school students he taught. They weren’t grasping the physics he was teaching at the level he knew they were capable of, so he decided to change up his teaching style. It wasn’t that his students didn’t care about achieving — he taught at high performing, affluent schools where students knew they needed high grades to get into good colleges. They argued for every point to make sure their grades were as high as possible, but were they learning?

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning Student know how to play school like it's a game, but if teachers change the rules, they just might appreciate it.

Innovation: Significant Positive Change | Edutopia | In an innovative classroom, teachers add context, guide learning, and push students to construct meaning and understanding. The roles of both parties evolve as the teacher places the responsibility of knowledge construction on the shoulders of the students and then leverages his or her own expertise to ensure that the class meets the desired objectives.

Innovation: Significant Positive Change Educational innovation means finding new, positive, impactful ways to rethink roles and responsibilities, create meaningful learning opportunities,...

2014: One Educator's Year in Review | Edutopia | Minecraft EDU has been a big story even with the collective gasp when Microsoft purchased it for $2.5 billion. Educators have found cool ways to connect students in Minecraft (and align with standards) while collaborating and building. QR Codes have become even more popular ways to link the physical world with the virtual world.

2014: One Educator's Year in Review Vicki Davis documents 14 education trends that she observed in 2014, from disrespected teachers and data-driven schools to cool new tech and...

Some Struggles Teachers Face Using Games in the Classroom | MindShift | The obstacles to widespread teacher adoption of games as the primary means of instruction are many, but despite the struggles, many teachers do use digital games creatively to push students to think critically. Those early-adopting teachers will be the ones to inspire and teach their colleagues about what works and where the pitfalls lie as this trend grows.

Some Struggles Teachers Face Using Games in the Classroom Lack of time and administrative support are just some of the obstacles to using games in the classroom.

ASU education dean on the importance of great teachers | ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College | Mari E. Koerner, the dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, offered a straightforward answer: “Someone who can build relationships with children, with parents,” she said—and who “has knowledge about what they’re teaching and knows how to teach.” The great teachers connect with the child and the child’s life—and they have something to teach, she said.

ASU education dean on the importance of great teachers | ASU Mary Lou... Defining what it takes to be – and make – a great teacher is a complicated task, according to a panel of education thinkers who addressed this...

Check out the Institute of Play's review of Quest2Teach! Thanks so much for the great article.

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Guide: Developers Could Focus on Helping Teachers Incorporate Games | Games and Learning | Developers can help by offering clear and concise explanations of the role of the game in covering a topic and how teachers can use the game within a curriculum. It does not necessarily need to dictate all of what that lesson plan contains, but helping a teacher understand and explain what the game can do could help encourage its use in class.

Guide: Developers Could Focus on Helping Teachers Incorporate Games One of the themes that emerges from the recently published guide to using games in the classroom is that for it to work games need to be welcomed...

The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning | MindShift | How can games unlock a rich world of learning? This is the big question at the heart of the growing games and learning movement that’s gaining momentum in education. The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning [PDF] explains key ideas in game-based learning, pedagogy, implementation, and assessment. This guide makes sense of the available research and provides suggestions for practical use.

The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning explains key ideas in game-based learning, pedagogy, implementation, and assessment. This guide...

How Digital Games Help Teachers Make Connections to Lessons and Students | MindShift | Struggling learners often come out of their shells and prove they can deliver some of the most innovative solutions. Succeeding in one area of class helps them gain confidence for other tasks, like writing and group projects.

How Digital Games Help Teachers Make Connections to Lessons and Students Teachers finding the most success are good at creatively connecting the game back to the curriculum, while allowing it to maintain the qualities of...

A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators | MindShift | This activity grew out of my work with teachers and school leaders to identify effective solutions to school problems. Over time, I became curious about how schools might make pain points visible, in order to tap into educators’ collective wisdom to solve them.

A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators A simple game can bring educators together to talk about pain points and observations, and ultimately, find a solution.

Radix Puts Teachers in Role of Co-Designers of an Educational Game | Games and Learning | We see the teacher not only as a stakeholder in the design process but as a key component in the success of the game. If the game doesn’t support the needs of the secondary math or science teacher, we don’t have a product.

Radix Puts Teachers in Role of Co-Designers of an Educational Game As Anna Jordan-Douglass noted in her piece a few months ago, the key to making a game great for kids is to spend time with kids playing your game...

Humble Weekly Bundle: Get Your Learn On (pay what you want, help charity) | Knowledge is power! Especially when you’re using that knowledge to fend off angry monsters and grow wacky plants. Pay what you what for educational games like Type:Rider, Ludwig and Crazy Plant Shop. Beat the average price and you also get Sokobond and Influent. Pay $9+ and take home all of that, & Contraption Maker and The Counting Kingdom!

Humble Weekly Bundle: Get Your Learn On Get your learn on with the 7 educational games in this week's Humble Weekly Bundle!

Learn More about Connected Educator Month | Helping Educators Thrive in a Connected World | Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Education and its partners as part of the Connected Educators initiative, CEM offers highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to educators at all levels.

Connected Educator Month Download your FREE Starter Kit - The Connected Educator Month Starter Kit - created by Powerful Learning Practice - has 31 days of connected...

Updated! The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources | Edutopia | Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!

The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and...