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Education Week PD Webinars (yes, there is a fee to register). > Developing Intrinsic Motivation in Students with Chris Wejr and Larry Ferlazzo March 5, 2013 at 4pm ET > Intentional Teaching: Infusing Instruction With Purpose with Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey March 20, 2013 at 2pm ET >Daniel Pink on How Teachers Can 'Sell' More to Students April 9, 2013 at 2pm ET

What is hot, and by implication what is not

Gamification is one of their high impact technologies

Though geared to the for-profit tech and design industry, this article describes what designers at Ziba learned in 2012. How might we apply these insights to education?

Wearable technology seems to be gaining popularity... Here's a link to the NYTimes profile of Memoto, the new life-logging camera featured at SXSW. The company was founded in 2011 and has raised close to a million dollars in financing through Kickstarter and from European investors. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/meet-memoto-the-lifelogging-camera/?ref=technology

Hi Maria! Thanks for this posting! It was really interesting to read. I totally agree--it's important to give our girls the same praises that we give our boys in the classroom so that they both feel empowered and capable. This is also an interesting site to check out--- http://www.forbes.com/sites/deniserestauri/2013/05/01/why-the-ripple-effect-for-change-starts-with-educating-girls/

Thanks for sharing this Malik. I was wondering about accessibility in the middle of the report. Then when I came to wearable technology and the list of products available, I realized that there's so much more we could do for students who have special physical needs.

Rethinking MOOCs

Thanks for sharing, Xiaodi! Here's a related story about Duke University's participation in online learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/education/duke-university-leaves-semester-online.html?ref=education&_r=0

Part of the American Medical Associations' attempt to increase engagement in medical education.

"Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, estimated that Mr. Cook's prediction would come true in 2017, but others contend tablets will be on top sooner than that. For example, in a blog post on Friday, Horace Dediu, an analyst with Asymco in Finland, made a detailed argument that tablet sales would pass traditional PC sales in the fall of 2013.

Developers of electronic textbooks and educational games would do well to focus on the tablet platform, which is predicted to become dominant in the next 2 to 3 years. This means that we would need to be fully prepared to leverage the affordances of the tablet technology in delivering our products. .

Ensuring games are engaging for both genders

This affirms decades of similar findings

NPR podcast about wearable technology and the evolution and adoption of Augmented Reality devices.

Back to the basics: "Studies show that positive feelings can enhance students' attention and higher-order thinking skills, as well as encouraging perseverance."