An excellent account of fostering engagement in students.

A set of excellent TED talks on education

A different kind of game, with worthwhile results

My thoughts on reading on this article was that if we designed interesting educational games that required physical movement (using Kinect, Move, VR etc), we can tackle engagement and exercise in one stroke.

Cognitive enhancement - the next trillion dollar industry

Game on!

Agreed about the definition. However, "Almost all the teachers surveyed who said they used games reported that they used ones specifically designed for education, and the games most often corresponded with literacy and reading (50%) and math (35%).", which is encouraging. Kurt Squire is correct in that the data may include a good number of 'trivial games', but that is probably to be expected since the biggest barriers seems to be cost (50% respondents) and technology (46%).

"Identifying promising models for mixing online learning and face-to-face instruction Challenges in e-learning Building partnerships to increase virtual learning collaboration among districts Teaching a "flip model" of instruction with online lectures as homework"

More help to sort out the wheat from the chaff.

e-Readers are making staedy advances, becoming more and more like print books (only better?)

For those looking to develop educational content that can be accessed on any platform, HTML 5 offers promise.

A nice application of iPads in the community.

"Quest supports a dynamic curriculum that uses the underlying design principles of games to create academically challenging, immersive, game-like learning experiences for students. Games and other forms of digital media also model the complexity and promise of "systems." Understanding and accounting for this complexity is a fundamental literacy of the 21st century."

What a way to learn!

In a world dominated by iPad news , a story on Kindle - motivating kids to read