gamification Archives

5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

January 10, 2025 by Kyle Miklya, Elementary School Teacher

Gamification isn’t just about having fun--it’s about creating a classroom environment where students actively participate and learn.

Incorporating game elements into lessons helps students feel more motivated and excited to participate. As a fourth-grade teacher, I’ve seen how gamification can transform a regular lesson into…

Upcoming Trends in Primary Education: Key Insights for K-12 IT Administrators

February 12, 2025August 6, 2024 by Jeff Festa

Learn about the top trends that are expected to impact primary education in 2024-25 and how it will affect your ... Read more

Building Resilient Network Infrastructure: A Step-by-Step Guide for IT Administrators

February 12, 2025August 6, 2024 by Jeff Festa

From gamification to AI, technology impacts education at every level. Schools need robust, reliable, and secure connectivity for students ... Read more

Game-Based Learning

Gamifying math and beating the summer slide

June 20, 2024 by Dr. Sara Delano Moore, ORIGO Education

$Gamification in math challenges students to consider new ways of understanding problems and gives them the freedom to make mistakes.$

Just as we don't become fluent in art, language, or sports through repetitive drills over a few weeks, mastering math requires a different approach.

Game-Based Learning

3 ways educators leverage gamification strategies

November 23, 2023 by Laura Ascione

Gamification helps students dive into learning--and it helps educators present challenging topics in engaging ways.

When teachers turn a lesson or tough-to-teach concept into a motivational gamed or use a fun competition to teach new concepts, students become immersed in their learning and…

Innovation Insights

The future of game-based learning

November 15, 2023October 31, 2023 by Kevin Hogan

Kevin Hogan sits down for a conversation with Ki Karou, Senior Director of Product, Content for MIND Research Institute, on the evolving landscape of education, gamification, and technology…

Game-Based Learning

The future of gamification

July 27, 2023 by Sam Baule, 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army & Biomedical Engineer, University of Iowa’s Hospitals and Clinics and Dr. Steve Baule, Faculty, Winona State University's Leadership Education Department

Using traditional and AI-supported gamification, teachers can make learning a captivating journey of discovery for students

In the past decade, students have been inundated with more and more distractions. The internet provides an infinite amount of said distractions: YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to name…

Game-Based Learning

3 tools that foster gamification in my 4th grade classroom

June 11, 2024July 26, 2023 by Carrie Rosenberg, 4th Grade Teacher, Community Christian School

Gamification encourages students to take ownership of their learning and boosts classroom engagement across content areas.

Gamification is one of the biggest in education trends right now in education. According to ISTE, “Gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a…

Game-Based Learning

MDM solutions and gamification make perfect interactive learning partners

May 10, 2023 by Nadav Avni, CMO, Radix Technologies

Adding gamification elements during teaching sessions, and using the right MDM solutions, can help educators increase student engagement.

In the era of mobile devices and tablets, interactivity has become the norm for schoolchildren. To facilitate effective teaching and learning, modern schools must equip every classroom with…

Digital Learning Tools

35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

February 6, 2023February 3, 2023 by Laura Ascione

At FETC 2023, a focus on equity, access, and post-pandemic healing took top billing in the convention center.

This year's Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and…

Coding and Robotics

How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

January 6, 2023 by Dr. Yuvraj Verma, Teacher, Martha Gaskins Elementary School

Coding platforms offer virtual programming services where children can learn code through games

Coding is a necessary skill in today’s world, but it is relatively challenging to master, especially for kids. Its complexity is not necessarily because it is incomprehensible, but…

Classroom Innovations

The critical link between scholastic esports and career pathways education

July 29, 2022 by Daniel Rolo, Intermediate Teacher, St. Clair Catholic District School Board

Few students will have careers as esports athletes, but all will enter the workforce, applying skills they learned in scholastic esports to any number of careers

When I first approached my administration back in August 2021 about implementing a scholastic esports program at school I had imagined facing significant opposition to the idea, and,…

Classroom Innovations

Gamification tools that increase student engagement

July 27, 2022 by Abigail Beran, 5th Grade Teacher

Gamification offers many benefits for teachers and students alike--here's how to integrate these tools into your instruction.

Who out there doesn’t enjoy some form of game? Whether it be watching or playing a sport, a card game, a board game, or video games, most people…

COVID in Schools

The kids are all right online

December 7, 2022July 19, 2022 by Kevin Hogan

Online learning, once dismissed as a poor substitute for in-person learning, is proving why it is an engaging and fulfilling learning option.

In this episode of Innovations in Education, host Kevin Hogan explores: How esports and gamification have advanced classroom instruction and homework; Has AR/VR finally come of age?; Will…

SEL & Well-Being

ISTELive 22 wrap-up!

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 by Kevin Hogan

In this episode of Innovations in Education, host Kevin Hogan explores: How esports and gamification have advanced classroom instruction and homework; Has AR/VR finally come of age?; Will…

Classroom Innovations

Will gamification replace paper tests?

May 2, 2022 by Simos Retalis, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Kinems

Gamified assessments can provide richer data for a more holistic analysis of students skills and progress

Nearly everyone remembers the stress of taking a test in school. In-class exams have the power to make even the most dedicated of students quake with fear, not…

STEM & STEAM

3 ways gamification engages students

June 8, 2021 by Arushi Gupta, Founder and CEO, AlgoSTEM

Gamification can help students overcome some of the troubles that accompany virtual learning--here's how

Gamification, defined as using game-like elements in non-game contexts, can help motivate online learners and solve this issue. In the context of education, gamification elements typically include digital…

Game-Based Learning

I gamified my classroom and students are soaring

December 7, 2022January 9, 2019 by Amanda Moore

An average child today will have played 10,000 hours of video games before the age of 21. If playing games is part of our culture, even part of…

Edtech Trends

The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind

January 25, 2023August 19, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting news and thought-provoking developments from the past week. I can’t fit all of this week's news stories here, though,…

STEM & STEAM

Report: Gamifying computer science is an easy place to start

August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

With efforts to expand computer science education growing across the nation, some schools still grapple with a big problem: they don't have the staff or space to accommodate…

21st Century Skills

Stretch student collaboration skills with Breakout EDU

August 8, 2016 by Lee Araoz

The physical and virtual escape games build valuable 21st-century skills. Here's how it works

21st Century Skills

5 ways to gamify writing in the classroom

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 by Joan Selby

Believe it or not, writing is a natural fit for gamification techniques, and students will come to love the challenge.

21st Century Skills

3 ways to revamp lessons for the interactive learner

May 26, 2016 by Mike Broderick

Educators who want to reach students who favor interactive communication know that integrating digital tools into their lesson plans can be an effective strategy. But to make a…

District Management

New professional development focuses on engagement through gaming

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016 by Laura Ascione

The ever-increasing omnipresence of digital media in student’s lives can be challenging for teachers as they compete for kid’s attention in and out of the classroom. With this…

IT Management

Microsoft replacing MinecraftEDU with new education edition

January 20, 2016 by Stephen Noonoo, Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/stephenoonoo' target='_blank'>@stephenoonoo</a>

Starting this summer, classrooms hooked on MinecraftEDU will be given the option of migrating to a new education-focused Minecraft title, recently announced by Microsoft who has acquired the…

Curriculum

3 ways teachers can make learning more interactive

March 5, 2015 by By Mike Broderick

Today’s students are a uniquely interactive group. Most of the 80 million Americans who are part of the millennial generation—a group that comprises the lion’s share of today’s…

Teaching Trends

My top 6 gaming resources for STEM teaching

February 17, 2015 by By Monique Liles

Motivating students and keeping students actively engaged in lessons is becoming frequently more challenging for even the most creative teachers. At times it can seem we’re competing with…

Featured on eSchool News

6 Minecraft lesson ideas for your Common Core math class

December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 by Jim Pike

Last year I taught third-grade math in a whole new way. Combining elements from the wildly popular sandbox game Minecraft, I had students thinking visually and creatively about…

Featured on eSchool News

Using games to measure student skills

May 14, 2014May 14, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Game-based learning is one of the most popular trends in education today, and for good reason--a well-designed game engages students, boosts their interest in the topic it addresses,…

IT Management

What’s the difference between games and gamification?

August 22, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Perhaps the best way to think about games in education is not to automatically call everything that looks like fun a “learning game,” EdSurge reports.

5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

Gamifying math and beating the summer slide

3 ways educators leverage gamification strategies

The future of game-based learning

The future of gamification

3 tools that foster gamification in my 4th grade classroom

MDM solutions and gamification make perfect interactive learning partners

35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

The critical link between scholastic esports and career pathways education

Gamification tools that increase student engagement

The kids are all right online

ISTELive 22 wrap-up!

Will gamification replace paper tests?

3 ways gamification engages students

I gamified my classroom and students are soaring

The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind

Report: Gamifying computer science is an easy place to start

Stretch student collaboration skills with Breakout EDU

5 ways to gamify writing in the classroom

3 ways to revamp lessons for the interactive learner

New professional development focuses on engagement through gaming

Microsoft replacing MinecraftEDU with new education edition

3 ways teachers can make learning more interactive

My top 6 gaming resources for STEM teaching

6 Minecraft lesson ideas for your Common Core math class

Using games to measure student skills

What’s the difference between games and gamification?

With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

Frontline Education Announces Chris Collins as New Chief Customer Officer

NoRedInk and the National Writing Project Partner to Inspire the Next Generation of Writers in the Age of Gen AI

Almost 2,000 Schools and Districts Choose Lexia® English Language Development™ to Support Emergent Bilingual Students’ English Language Acquisition

Florida Virtual School Partners with University of Florida and Concord Consortium to Launch ‘Artificial Intelligence in Math’ Online Certification for Middle, High School Students

Product Enhancements from Discovery Education Foster Improved Engagement and Personalization

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