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065: How gamification is influencing education

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Rob Alvarez is an expert, speaker and advocate for the use of gamification in education. He’s the creator and host of Professor Game and works at IE Business School Publishing, with interactive and engaging learning experiences.

Professor Game is a weekly podcast where we interview successful practitioners of games, gamification and game thinking that will bring us the best of their experiences to get ideas, insights and will inspire us in the process of getting students or trainees to learn what we teach.

On this episode we discuss:

  • How gamification can be used in education to support learning in a way that children do at home.
  • Where trying until you succeed is positively reinforced as part of learning.
  • Learning through play and helping others.
  • Creating an environment where children have the skills to prosper in the modern world.

http://www.professorgame.com

https://twitter.com/RobAlvarezB

Full details about the podcast at www.EducationOnFire.com

Teacher Training Opportunities this Summer at the Royal Opera House

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Dear Teacher,

The Royal Opera House’s Learning and Participation programmes place creative learning at the centre of every child’s education, attainment and experience. Our online resources, written by experienced teachers, are high quality, inspirational materials that can be adapted to all classrooms and student abilities.

Explore the programmes and develop your skills at our CPD Days at the Royal Opera House in July!

• imaginative classroom creative activities based on dance and singing

• digital resources to use in ways that suit the needs of your students

• a 10, 5 or 2 week scheme of work aligned to the National Curriculum

 

Create and Dance Nutcracker
Thursday 05 July; 9.00-4.00pm

To develop your skills in dance pedagogy and choreography

NB. The Nutcracker programme costs £150 for 1 teacher and a class of 30 to complete and includes the INSET, mid point support, a creative challenge with prizes and cinema visit to see The Nutcracker ballet.

For more information or to sign up email create&dance@roh.org.uk or call 0203 772 6373

Create and Sing Carmen
Friday 06 July; 9.00-3.30pm

To develop skills in singing, directing and conducting working with a vocal lead and a director in a series of classroom activities inspired by Bizet’s Carmen. This CPD is FREE.

For more information or to sign up email Createandsing@roh.org.uk or call 0203 772 6291

 

For further information about our other Learning programmes, please visit our online learning platform here.

 

Quotes:

‘It has been one of the best things I have done with my class! The use of appraisal and listening to each other has trickled through into other subjects; not just this project. I’ve felt the impact even on their writing, they are much more open to feedback and evaluation.’
Create and Dance Nutcracker Class Teacher, Helpringham Primary School

“Teaching Opera… not as something high, elite and exclusive – it’s very accessible and has very tangible skills to take away.”
Create and Sing Carmen Class Teacher, Wimbledon Park Primary School, Greater London

063: What to expect from the Education on Fire podcast

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Short intro to the new look Education on Fire, pre season 5.

The continuation of themed seasons

Wednesday Wisdom

New interviews with successful people who are living their dreams. How did school help or hinder them? What are the most important lessons they have learnt in their journey? Who did they meet or what did they read/hear that has made a profound affect on them. Full details coming soon.https://www.educationonfire.com/

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