How Gamification Can Create a Homeschool Education

Homeschooling has become one of the fastest growing forms of education, and gamification has become very integral to the way these children are learning.

When a parent decides to remove their child from school, many times it’s due to the boring nature of traditional classrooms, inflexible schedules, and just a general disagreement with the American education system but now there are a number of gamification tools that can solve these issues and make homeschooling better.

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New Examples of Gamification – June 1, 2012

Hello GCo Readers! Today we have three new examples of education gamification added to the GBase: Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that provides a free online curriculum for learning a variety of subjects featuring gamification elements to encourage learning. Mind Snacks is a language learning mobile game that uses minigames to teach vocabulary in 7 languages. Septris is…

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Motivating Learning Beyond Grades

Education in the United States is in dark times. Although we are one of the richest nations in the world, based upon international testing, our 9th graders are 28th in math, 22nd in science, and 18th in reading. Of course standardized testing as a measurement receives its fare share of criticism, but an even more insidious culprit in America’s…

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