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Brain Points: A Growth Mindset Reward Structure Boosts Player Persistence!
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Brain Points: A Growth Mindset Reward Structure Boosts Player Persistence in Refraction
By: Eleanor O'Rourke
Psychologist Carol Dweck has made an interesting discovery. She and her colleagues have...

BrainPOP’s Approach to the Common Core State Standards
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Since the announcement of the Common Core Standard initiative, the entire BrainPOP staff has worked hard to make appropriate adjustments. Here at BrainPOP Educators, we have carefully considered how o...

Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Discoveries in Cell Transportation!
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This morning, professors James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas C. Suedhof became the latest recipients of Nobel Prize in Medicine! They received the award for their work detailing how a cell’s tr...

A New Registration and Verification Process for BrainPOP Educators
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As you may have heard, this fall we’ve launched My BrainPOP, a new tool that enables teachers and students to keep track of learning. Educators are able to set up "classes," create and grade custom qu...

Connected Educator Month
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative has made October 2013 the second annual Connected Educator Month! Throughout the month, there will be coordinated opportunities to par...

BrainPOP’s New and Improved iOS App!
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BrainPOP's beloved featured movie app has been updated and is now featured on the iTunes App Store! Be sure to update and see the new optimized layouts for Apple's iOS 7, nifty swiping gestures that a...

Using BrainPOP’s Quizzes with Promethean’s LRS
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We'd like to thank those of you who have contacted us to express interest in continued use of our quizzes with ActivExpression and ActiVote. The integration of BrainPOP quizzes with these learner resp...

Context Clues – New Content on BrainPOP
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We're excited to announce the debut of yet another BrainPOP topic that can help explain a popular reading strategy, Context Clues. In this BrainPOP movie, Tim explains how to use context clues to figu...

BrainPOP in French: Our Film du Jour French App debut!
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Looking for a French App for your iOS device? Vive le Film du Jour app! We've just launched a French version of our Featured Movie app for iOS, available in iTunes for your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touc...

Annotate BrainPOP Activity Pages!
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Now you can type and draw annotations on BrainPOP activity pages!
Take a look at the new functionality at the bottom of BrainPOP activity pages! Now students can choose to type, draw (and erase) on...