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12/15/2015

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

The ability to design classes as games has opened up options to teachers interested in framing learning as a quest.

12/07/2015

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

11/20/2015

You can do this, new teachers!!

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.

09/01/2015

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

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…

08/19/2015

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

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

08/18/2015

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

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...

04/08/2015

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.

Even if you weren’t born with some of these qualities, you can develop them.

03/13/2015

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

03/13/2015

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

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

03/13/2015

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

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…

03/13/2015

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

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.

03/13/2015

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

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