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Meet Anjila: Our new Game-based Learning Instructional Design & Research Assistant

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We’re thrilled to introduce Anjila Lim, the newest member of the dfusion team! Anjila recently graduated from New York University with a Master’s of Science in Games for Learning. Coming from Singapore and with prior higher education experience in the UK, she is deeply passionate about games and their power to create meaningful learning experiences,

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Teachers Who Said Yes First – And Why They Were Right

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A Teacher Appreciation Week reflection from dfusion There is a particular kind of teacher we have been thinking about this week. Not the teacher of the year. Not the one with the most-pinned classroom on Pinterest. We are thinking about the teacher who, sometime in the last decade, looked at a piece of educational technology

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Can Fantasy Football Teach Math? New Ed-Tech Game Shows Big Gains in Middle School Pilot

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“I used to not really like math but FSML changed that, and I really like it now.” —6th grade student “It changed the way I saw fractions at first they were a bit hard but now its easy.” – 8th grade student For students who groan at the thought of another math worksheet, a game-changing

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Hands-on Science Makes a Difference

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The latest results from the Nation’s Report Card shows that 8th grade students have fewer opportunities to practice scientific inquiry activities in the classroom. In 2024, that has translated to lower science achievement and lower rates of enjoying science compared to 2019. Only 31% of 8th graders were proficient in science and even fewer were

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