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Can engagement and motivation in Middle School/HS STEM areas sustain itself through college? "Undergraduates across the country are choosing to leave science, technology, engineering and math programs before they graduate with those degrees according to a 2010 University of California, Los Angeles, study."

From a learning point of view, aging has its consolations, along with its detriments like loss of memory and quick math skills. Read this if you want a general perspective on research into the mature adult mind.

Off the heels of our class discussion on extrinsic motivation in paying students - The producers of this educational media have built in an "allowance pledge" for parents to pay their kids to play DimensionU's games.

Students earn virtual currency by completing math "missions" with third party content. This is a start-up incubated by Pearson. To unlock premium content, students would pay real money (this portion is modeled on Zynga's facebook games)

Nice to see the customization revolution well underway. Makes sense to focus on the upper teen segment who might be inspired to try something new to NOT dropout of HS or college. I wonder if their preliminary studies find changes in performance in traditional classes?

MSN sponsored site on home schooling topics.

Even though the products of this company have been ranked highly as an education app, I am unable to see how this game is any different from the drill type computer games that have been around for ages. Am I missing something ? I think there is a need for both clear guidelines and regulation before a product can be claimed to have educational value.

On trialling these games from Pearson ( download demo available for -math and english) it is obvious that there is no integration of learning content with game play mechanics...... do share your thoughts if you should trial it.

With a new $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the MIT Education Arcade is about to design, build, and research a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) to help high school students learn math and biology.

Not specifically tied to this course, but interesting nonetheless.  

Those of you working on TESLA may be interested in this article! (Or anybody interested in the gender gap in students following STEM careers.

a research project collecting short stories about how people experience mathematics in everyday life

A simple experiment that shows what motivates children to save/spend