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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Draw Something, a New Twist on Pictionary, Charms Mobile Gamers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Mr. Porter attributed the game’s success to its real-time feel. Players can watch animated playbacks of their teammates trying to guess their creation before taking their turn. The word choices are another big selling point; in addition to standard selections like “orange” and “dynamite,” the game is liberally infused with pop culture references, like members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Skrillex, a dubstep DJ. “We’re also benefiting from hitting at a time when a lot of people are moving from feature phones to smartphones,” he said. Mr. Porter thinks that just as Facebook has a social graph — the people its users want to be friends with — OMGPop can learn more about its “gamer graph,” or the people their users like to play games with. “It’s really about relationships,” he said  of the game. “How well do I know you and can guess what you drew. That is part of the fun.”
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    Draw Something was acquired by Zynga this week for $180 million!!!!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Games Help Kids Learn Through Failure - 3 views

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    A blog post by Dr. David Dockterman. In learning by playing videogames, constructivism and flow are significant.
Gozie Nwabuebo

Bright Spots shine in blended online technology - Education Next - 4 views

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started by Gozie Nwabuebo on 12 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
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    Gozie,

    Thank you for sharing this article. I believe blended learning will become the mainstream in the near future and these success stories reinforce that feeling.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Blended Learning Boot Camp: Extending Classes Online - InstantPresenter.com Video Confe... - 0 views

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    ""Blended Learning Boot Camp: Extending Classes Online""
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    A webinar on Blended Learning at 4 pm on Wednesday, March 14
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

The Math Forum - Math Library - Games - 2 views

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    A decent resource on educational games for math
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline of PCs - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    "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.
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    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. .
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Investing in K-12 Digital Innovation - Digital Education - Education Week - 1 views

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    Panel Discussion at the DML Conference on March 2, 2012
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week: Rethinking Testing in the Age of the iPad - 1 views

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    An example of how teachers are using iPads to streamline data collection and analysis
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Smartphones have Led, Desktops will follow- NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    When you design a didgital product, it pays to look ahead and see what is coming around the corner.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

UX Now: Balance, Intimacy and Speed - 0 views

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    Some nice pointers for User Interface design in the current context
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Kinect Effect Reaches Into Hospitals, Senior Centers - 2 views

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    A serious and life-saving application of Kinect
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Microsoft Research FUSE Labs - Kodu Game Lab - 4 views

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    "Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language."
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

F.T.C. Finds Privacy Problems With Apps for Children - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Makers and users of mobile apps for children, take note!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

The New Haven Experiment - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    We talk a lot about student engagement. Does being accountable and respected raise the engagement level (and hopefully performance) of the teacher?
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - (It's Not Just About the Laptops) - 0 views

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    Some very useful lessons to learn fro Mooresville. Looks like the broader ecosystem (such as cheper access to broadband internet) has been thought through rather than just dropping a laptop into the classroom.
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