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When researching for my article, one of the executives was mentioned on his thoughts on leaderboards. It seems that Dream Box, as a company, works to keep the student experience in mind.

Lots of great points here. I also wonder about the consistency of extrinsic rewards like badges and leaderboards. Will students eventually get bored if they are always at the top or always at the bottom?

I had no idea that Khan Academy was such a developed platform that had a strong gamification aspect already incorporated. I keep fixating on the competition aspect of gamification because a leaderboard

I don't think we're there yet. Blockchain social media is still pretty clunky in terms of the user experience. I don't see students being able to navigate effectively.

I completely agree with all. I had a sticker system back in elementary and once you received so many stickers, you could pick something from the treasure chest. My own children earned Pizza Hut pizzas

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! It ties together two of my passions. I'm excited to dig deeper.

As someone who as student debt for the second time in my life, once for my education and once for my children's education, I can only say that this would be an amazing opportunity towards economic equality.

I think this is a great project because teachers are already adept at connecting and collaborating on social media, BUT HIVEBLOG allows for a deeper, more genuine level of connection through its blog format

Having been a technology teacher for 15 years, where much of the work my students did was project-based, I wish we would have had a platform where they could save their projects and continue to build on

I'm struggling with searching in general. Luckily Annie suggested typing in the direct profile address and that allowed me to find folks to endorse, but I haven't had any luck with much else.

I love your passion about this Annie. I hesitate to give the pandemic any credit for anything good, but I do know it caused some educators to rethink where they could teach and moved teachers outside.

Thanks for building on your previous post Annie. I have a co-worker who was in that situation as a parent, since they chose 100% virtual, their district had purchased a program and the teachers were just

I think your idea has real value and I think the timing is very good also. Teaching is always a collaborative process, but during the pandemic people in general have become more comfortable with virtual