GVALLE-EFFECTIVE LEARNING- SUMMER

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       "How games make children smarter" This video presentation shows that gamification is a great avenue-tool to use in promoting student learning, even though, some of the researchers believe that games are not teachable tools to increase children's intelligence. Additionally, in this video by, Zichermann - Gamification captured my interest and a question arises; how can games help students to be smarter? While watching the video, one of the examples caught my attention. The educator, named Mr. Ananth Pai used a game-based curriculum to increase student achievement in math and language arts. According to Mr. Zichermann, Mr. Pai was able to achieve excellent results in the performance of his students from lower- third grade to mid-fourth grade in math and language arts components within a time period of 18 weeks. The student’s engagement increases because they found the interactive curriculum more fun. Zichermann, believes that Gamification is a vital tool to impro...

  Plan on how to be a positive Digital Citizen.  Concerning the use of technology in education. Since the current impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, technology has become more present in our lives, our homes, our jobs, and our schools. Our children are growing up in a rapidly changing world that requires rapidly changing educational approaches just to say the least. First and foremost, in the warm-up activity, I will ask students what they know about technology, I will display KWL chart and distributed sticky notes for students to write their responses, Then, I will expand a little bit more of why on the school registration parents and students sign an agreement about the use of technology. Once that is clear, I will move forward with my lesson.   In my digital citizenship plan, I would introduce the lesson by asking them the following questions: What are the pro and cons of technology? based on their responses, I will make two groups for debate, posing this type of qu...