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Is engagement in the theater with Twitter going too far?

A very inspiring story! This is an example of engagement, motivation and flow coming together! If this 15 year-old boy can achieve this, why can we not foster it in other children? 

report documenting measurement of STEM interest

How to keep students engaged in STEM while in high school

"Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web - from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds"

Some background about educational games

This is a great clip summarizing the main points of Dan Pink's 'Drive'. It challenges some myths we have about what motivates us and provides some interesting experiments to back up the conclusions.

fabulous, video. Matthew. Touches directly on course topics and readings

Good summary of the principles for designing learning experiences. 

Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves as chairman and chief scientist.

Thanks for sharing Rupangi. This tool could provide so much valuable feedback to educators as they design formal and informal learning environments for students. There are two things which I think any educator should be very aware about before implementing it though: 1. The privacy of the data and who has access to it 2. The steps that can be taken to prevent a misinterpretation of the data.

What happens when everything can be made engaging, instantly?

I read the UMass study that it references (average time to wait for a page to load is ~2 sec) when it came out and initially found it surprising, but after paying closer attention to my internet habits, I realized that I, too, am quite impatient!!

I do feel media can be viewed as a reward because of the high levels of enjoyment and engagement when one consumes media. That is why it is so 'gratifying' and we end up constantly yearning for it unless we train ourselves to observe our media consumption patterns. It is important to monitor these patterns.

A talk about how the RSA Animate series seeks to engage learners in innovative ways and how it draws from new research on cognitive engagement.

Brandon, have you ever used one of their animations

I haven't used it in a formal way. Although I find myself very engaged in the content. I've seen some of the animations that are other talks that they converted to an animation, and it's really incredible how much more engaging it becomes with fairly simple, yet beautiful graphics.

Visualization tool. referred by junjie. 

Tomoko, can you say more about this tool--and why you shared it?

I am so sorry... I posted by mistake....was meant to be for different diigo group....

For those who are interested in the discussion of ethics, politics, citizenship, this seems to be a potential platform for more public engagement! 

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