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Feb 01

Change is Hard

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
February 1, 2013

So I am continuing to survey my students. It’s our midterm and halfway through our school year so I wanted to check in and see how they’re all doing. After the positive exit slip experience I had last week I thought this week’s survey would be cool. It was cool but not so easy to …

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Jun 11

Alternate Reality Game

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Grades & HW, Science
June 11, 2012

This past Thursday Nicholas Provenzano hosted a Twitter chat at #NerdyChat on the topic of Gamification (see transcript here). Gamification is the idea of using the best of video gaming in the classroom. Why? Watch a kid play a video game. Video games hook the player and motivate the player to persevere through failure and …