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“Zep” Is A Video Game-Like Site Similar To Wayground, Blooket & Kahoot
Zep is a new-to-me learning game site that has lots of similarities to the usual suspects – Wayground, Blooket and Kahoot. I first heard about when reading a study that found playing it helped with student motivation (there is similar research available for most of the online gaming platforms). The main difference – at least, as it appears to me – is that its game interface tries to be much more like a video game – and there are many different “maps” (video game formats) to choose from. There’s a free account that lets you create and play games, but just not with as many different video game formats. Personally, when I was in the classroom, I paid for the premium accounts of Wayground (then Quizizz) and Blooket, and that worked out fine for my students. I still use them with the elementary school students I now tutor weekly. The free accounts for the others functioned as a periodic change of pace. I’m adding this info to: The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms”      The Best Resources For Using “Reactance” With Students To Help Them Learn About How Corporations Try To Manipulate Them geralt / Pixabay
As previous research has shown, preaching to young people about the dangers of gambling, sweets, AI, etc. are not very effective strategies. However, if you show them how corporations are manipulating them – that’s a different story. I recently learned that this concept is called “reactance,” You can learn about it here and here. I’ve shared about this idea in the past at: A Look Back: Important New Study Looks At Assets, Not Deficits, Of Teen “Defiance” Video: “How Stores Try to Manipulate Your Senses to Sell You Stuff” Here are even more related resources: The No-Phone “Rebels” Book Club is from Slate. When They Know They Are Being Manipulated — It Can Help is from ScreenAgers.     Related:
 Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources):
ZIP Code Is Destiny? Turns Out That’s Bunk is from The Wall Street Journal and is an interesting critique of a well-known Chetty study. Culturally Responsive Approaches to Indonesian Language Instruction: Insights for Inclusive Education is actually a nice short overview of how to do culturally responsive teaching anywhere, and it was interesting to read about it in the Indonesian context. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About “Culturally Responsive Teaching” & “Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy” – Please Share More! Development and validation of a scale to measure L2 motivation in Australian secondary students talks about motivation using Zoltan Dörnyei’s research, which is focused on language learners. You can learn more about his work here. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students. From Participation to Passion: Enhancing Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom is another new paper on student motivation. I’m adding it to the same list.  St. Patrick’s Day Is On March 17th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources AnnCarter / Pixabay
St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About St. Patrick’s Day (and April Fool’s Day).
 A Look Back: Amazing Bruce Springsteen Video On The Importance Of PracticeFor the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2017.
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I’m not really sure how many of our students know who Bruce Springsteen is, but this is an amazing video for any who do (though there is one minor classroom inappropriate word)… Daniel Coyle (see my Ed Week interview with him at “Teachers Need To Behave Like Johnny Appleseeds”: An Interview With Daniel Coyle) shared it at his blog (where I wish he posted more often!). I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice.  This a much more useful video than the infamous Allen Iverson “practice” video!  More Recent Articles |
