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Online games may not boost brainpower

mobile technologies, handhelds, e-learning, m-learning, professional development, PD

Can Pokemon be used as a teaching tool?

Very disturbing findings. Here's a quick excerpt: "There is still debate over whether scientific collaboration leads to better results. Jonathon Cummings, an associate professor of management at Duke University, and his colleagues got a grant from the National Science Foundation to look at 491 research collaborations funded by the foundation. They discovered something unsettling: Collaborations of more universities fared worse than projects primarily executed at a single university. More collaborators meant fewer patent applications, fewer published papers, and less chance of the group seeking additional funding to keep projects going." "Dr. Cummings says it appears that the amount of coordination required to make progress on research-everything from setting up meetings to integrating knowledge among group members-outweighed the potential benefits of collaboration. In the wake of the study, he says, the science foundation now requires grant applicants for some programs to detail how they expect to manage the collaboration."

"Oregon became the first state in the nation to offer Google Apps for Education in K-12 classrooms"

Awesome article about Miyamoto - the man behind Mario. Has some really interesting stuff about how he (and Nintendo by extension) creates compelling narratives and characters.

Learning about African through a video game

videogames could solve real world problems... maybe

A book that argues video games are the key to human happiness?

augmented reality in kindergarten

A 2009 Newsweek article about how certain ways of teaching can enhance motivation, while other ways do not. The story discusses the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

technology use in schools threatens to outrun infrastructure capacity

"Parents see the use of mobile technologies in schools as a means of increasing student engagement (43 percent) and preparing students for the working world (41 percent). The most often-cited instructional benefit is mobile devices' ability to extend learning beyond school hours."

Do anything you can't do in the real world in the game. That's the reason why it is so engaging.

When I think of engagement and flow I always thought of being focused but need to reconsider how all those stimuli from WOW were really adding to the engagement factor.

If anyone is interested in using games for education and learning in the Middle East, this short article provides a some information on the current state of the Arab video game market - challenges/opportunities/history.

early steps in augmented reality for learning