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Jackie Iger

New Ed. Videos from MIT, Khan Academy, and TED - Digital Education - Education Week - 2 views

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    MIT students are creating and sharing short videos about STEM subjects for K-12 learners.  
Jackie Iger

What's the Secret Sauce to a Great Educational Game? | MindShift - 4 views

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    An interesting article about how to create a great educational game.  
Jackie Iger

A Review of Living Language and Rocket Languages - App Smart - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Apps that will help you learn a new language.
Lin Pang

Top Gear Host Narrates Museum Exhibits - as Augmented Reality Avatar - 1 views

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    Augmented reality is dazzling when used appropriately. The Science Museum in London's exhibit on the Making of the Modern World looks to be a wonderfully educational experience about how specific technologies have propelled human history forward.
Ryan Brown

What Makes a Top-Tier Online Education? A Dose of Hollywood - Technology - The Chronicl... - 1 views

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    Interjecting "Hollywood" into online courses to make them more engaging.
Stephanie Leung

4 Key Insights From The 57-Day, Blitzkrieg Redesign Of Google+ | Co.Design: business + ... - 0 views

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    advice on improving a website's UI
Stephanie Leung

4 Tips For Turning A Great Idea Into A Full-Blown Movement | Co.Design: business + inno... - 2 views

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    advice on how to spread great ideas
Stephanie Leung

A Brilliantly Simple Desk Lamp That Adjusts, Without Moving Parts | Co.Design: business... - 1 views

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    a lamp designed with a sense of "wonder" reminiscent of playing with blocks
Stephanie Fitzgerald

melanie mcbride.net » Game-based learning: Keeping it real - 0 views

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    This post talks about the highly engaging "Gamercamp," referring to some concepts we discussed in T545, and goes on to discuss the potential for gaming in education.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Gamification in the classroom (and how to stop it) - 0 views

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    This post discusses downsides of gamification in the classroom, and it links to many interesting resources.  "I'm increasingly concerned about approaches that I think will suck the life out of gaming and play..."
Leslie Lieman

Blog - DIY - 0 views

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    A must see. DIY = kids + creativity + kids online community. This blog post explains a little about history and goals... "We're a community of kids who make."
Jing Jing Tan

Hacking Edu: tech's role in the future of higher education - GeekWire - 0 views

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    This article discusses trends in technology use in higher ed institutions, including a growing role of blended learning and technology-integrated meetings.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Barnes & Noble's E-Book Reader Glows in the Dark - State of the Art - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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

Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker - 1 views

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    A lengthy but informative New Yorker article for those interested in higher education and technology.
Marium Afzal

TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing - 0 views

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    Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.
Chris McEnroe

Technology alone won't solve education challenge | Wichita Eagle - 0 views

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      Was this guy in 545?
  • new phase of Aspire, we’ll take a “socially innovative” approach that goes beyond traditional philanthropy, engaging people and technology to create new and different solutions to social problems.
  • new Aspire will also leverage technology to connect with students in new and more effective ways. And you can expect to see a particular emphasis on gamification (using game techniques to teach students math, science and other applications), mobile applications, video and social media – the communications environments in which many of today’s students are most comfortable – to instill a new level of excitement into learning.
Katerina Manoff

Behavior Management Software - ClassDojo - 3 views

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    Check out this edtech start-up: I spoke to the founder today, and their philosophy sounds like it's right out of T-545. It's all about promoting intrinsic motivation for positive classroom behaviors and increasing kids' engagement through technology and immediate feedback.
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    David Rose featured this in a 560 lecture and I spoke a little about how I use it at homeschool. I don't use the negative behavior options and D. Rose said Skinner did not think negative reinforcement was useful. I use it as a way of facilitating conversation around positive actions that promote a pleasant social environment.
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