game-based learning

Those of you familiar with Common Sense Media may have heard some buzz in social networks recently about their new Learning Ratings Initiative for Digital Media . For many years now, Common Sense ...

Erin Wilkey Oh - 2012-07-20 10:59 - 0 comments

The Digital Is community might be particularly interested in this webinar by our good colleagues at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, with hosting and support from edWeb.net, SIIA, and BrainPOP. ...

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl - 2012-05-23 12:21 - 0 comments

This year we begin our spring testing with civics and economics - the course I teach. Since we test first, we have several weeks of classes left after testing. In hope of sparking each student's ...

Chad Sansing - 2012-07-06 11:28 - 0 comments

I decided on today’s topic based on a visit to the “Community” tab of Digital Is and an exploration of “recent tags.”  “Game-based learning” stood out to me, not because I’m a gamer, but because gaming has ...

Katherine Frank - 2012-03-07 17:27 - 1 comment

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Chad Sansing - 2012-04-20 09:37

Do you feel like there are more resources in Digital Is than you have time and energy to dig into? Make it into a game! Using the list of traits and characteristics of 21st Century learners as it appears ...

NWP Digital Is - 2012-03-07 07:18

This year I am teaching civics and economics as a middle school social studies teacher. While the content classroom brings new challenges and opportunities to student-directed learning, I'm ...

Chad Sansing - 2012-01-24 22:16

In my 8 years of teaching I have never seen students so excited and engaged. They run up to me in the halls to tell me what they plan to do next class. They draw pictures about the game in art. They sit at ...

Erin Wilkey Oh - 2011-09-29 10:06

• This page is part of How do I teach what I do not know?

How will I teach my students what I don't know in the context of my classroom? A more accurate question would be, “How do I teach what I know little about?” I say, ...

Janelle Bence - 2011-07-31 09:44

• This page is part of How do I teach what I do not know?

Seek out the information you need to make sense of it all. If you don’t understand the pedagogy, you can’t make sense of what it could do in your classroom. I began my journey of an ongoing ...

Janelle Bence - 2011-07-31 09:44