What are potential negative impacts of game elements in online educational activities?
What will be an ideal response?
Gaming can discourage noncompetitive students from playing. Winning and losing can become the overriding purpose of the experience. Playing a game can take the focus away from the learning of academic material. Teachers must carefully choose game play that avoids these potential negative impacts.
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a. “Remember to put the 2 in the tens column…” b. “OK boys and girls…keep in mind that the next step will be …” c. “Let’s see, now I am looking at the number in the hundreds column…” d. “You need to look carefully at each number and …”
In which of the following jurisdictions are the parents in the case of the principal who searched an 11-year-old student most likely to file the suit
A new principal searches an 11-year-old female student's purse, jacket, and jean pockets for illegal drugs. No illegal drugs were found. The student's parents bring suit charging that the search violated their daughter's right to be free of unreasonable search of her person and property. A. Local prosecuting attorney B. U. S. Supreme Court C. State Supreme Court D. Federal district court
Al of the following strategies are suggested as written language instructional procedures except:
a. COPS b. Mystic c. PENS d. TOWER
Each of the following is a "Life Management Skill" EXCEPT:
a. Reframing b. Passive or positive appraisal c. Social and professional support d. Fixating on problems which cannot be solved