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What They Play - Gamer Dad: 5 Tips for Gaming with Baby - 3 views

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Important mention on how games can affect infants and family dynamics.

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Logical Choice Looks To Augment Kindergarten Reality -- THE Journal - 3 views

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BBC NEWS | UK | Video games: Cause for concern? - 3 views

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Some negative effects of Video games i.e. RSI

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Teen Invents Videogame Diet To Shed Pounds - NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather... - 3 views

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A teenager invents a video game to help overcome obesity

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Shigeru Miyamoto - 3 views

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Awesome article about Miyamoto - the man behind Mario. Has some really interesting stuff about how he (and Nintendo by extension) creates compelling narratives and characters.

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How Not to Talk to Your Kids - 3 views

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Article in New York Magazine talking about the negative effects of unfocused praise and theories of intelligence, referencing Dweck, et al.

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Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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Let's Create a 'Culture' for Technological Innovation - 3 views

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An article advocating K-12 experiences and school culture shift that instill students with motivation, skills, confidence

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Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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I thought it was interesting to do this after watching the Bailenson video and Watson on Jeopardy. Check out hoe the computer thinks.

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4 Hot Social Gaming Trends to Watch - 3 views

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Mobile for MMO and Augmented Reality are both in here.

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Engagement stems from pizza - 3 views

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This is peripherally related to motivation, but it does hint at the motivational structure of the game. Interesting that something as simple as "girls like food" resulted in one of the greatest games ever.

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Mobile devices for news - 3 views

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Education Week: Digital Edition: Technology Counts 2011 - 3 views

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This is a very useful yearly report that provides a big picture look at technology usage

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BBC News - Going to Harvard from your own bedroom - 3 views

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"In the online world you don't need to fill buildings or lecture theatres with people and you don't need to be trapped into a lecture timetable," says Peter Scott, director of the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute.

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BBC News - Why did LOL infiltrate the language? - 3 views

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Internet sland term added to the Oxford English Dictionary

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Children's Drawing Painted Realistically | WHATTHECOOL - 1 views

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Game-Based Learning Webinar Series - 3 views

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Researchers debate gaming's effects on the brain | eSchool News - 3 views

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Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate - The Washington Post - 3 views

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Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution - 3 views

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I am posting two articles: 1) Apple's recent announcement about getting into digital textbooks (article/link below) and 2) the criticism (this link) by Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters. Education needs to rethink the need for textbooks altogether. Digitizing them is not the answer. She states, "You can disassemble, reassemble, unbundle, disrupt, destroy the textbook. It is truly an irrelevant format."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I am posting two articles: 1) Apple's recent announcement about getting into digital textbooks (article/link below) and 2) the criticism (this link) by Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters. Education needs to rethink the need for textbooks altogether. Digitizing them is not the answer. She states, "You can disassemble, reassemble, unbundle, disrupt, destroy the textbook. It is truly an irrelevant format."</div>

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Emily Lovell on 30 Jan 12

I thought it was interesting to read Watters's criticism of Apple's textbook plans, although I also thought it felt pretty one-sided. I do have reservations about how Apple is going about this (expecting everyone to own an iPad, requiring textbook authors to surrender rights, etc.) - but I don't think that the overall idea is so unbearable. Digitized textbooks offer many affordances compared to what we're stuck with currently (textbooks that are outdated, heavy, expensive, and limited by static content). Of course, theoretically we could do without textbooks, as Watters suggests in her criticism... but I'm not yet convinced of this in a practical, realistic sense. I suspect that the resources required to realize textbook-free classrooms are beyond what most schools and teachers have access to. (I also realize that iPads are not cheap! But if digitized textbooks were to become popular across a range of platforms, perhaps they would be more accessible to a broader demographic... and it's not as if physical textbooks are cheap either.)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I thought it was interesting to read Watters's criticism of Apple's textbook plans, although I also thought it felt pretty one-sided. I do have reservations about how Apple is going about this (expecting everyone to own an iPad, requiring textbook authors to surrender rights, etc.) - but I don't think that the overall idea is so unbearable. Digitized textbooks offer many affordances compared to what we're stuck with currently (textbooks that are outdated, heavy, expensive, and limited by static content). Of course, theoretically we could do without textbooks, as Watters suggests in her criticism... but I'm not yet convinced of this in a practical, realistic sense. I suspect that the resources required to realize textbook-free classrooms are beyond what most schools and teachers have access to. (I also realize that iPads are not cheap! But if digitized textbooks were to become popular across a range of platforms, perhaps they would be more accessible to a broader demographic... and it's not as if physical textbooks are cheap either.)</div>

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Leslie Lieman on 30 Jan 12

Hi Emily - thanks for your thoughts! Bloggers (especially those who use the name Hack in their title) are going to be provocative (one-sided) in their writing... but it helps raise questions about standard practices. I too agree that eTextbooks or iBooks are going to be tremendously more engaging and up-to-date than the ones that weigh down kids bookbags. But now take a look at the other article I posted: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/flow-digital-textbooks that suggests how publishers are not open to new and niche ideas that might be incredibly beneficial to education. The publishing market has a hold on education. Is it possible that the textbooks will not be available across a range of platforms, but only on a few that the publishers agree to work with? Maybe it is time we push for a more open source model... that could also work towards digitizing textbooks... or would innovate other ways for students to access "textbook"" knowledge.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hi Emily - thanks for your thoughts! Bloggers (especially those who use the name Hack in their title) are going to be provocative (one-sided) in their writing... but it helps raise questions about standard practices. I too agree that eTextbooks or iBooks are going to be tremendously more engaging and up-to-date than the ones that weigh down kids bookbags. But now take a look at the other article I posted: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/flow-digital-textbooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/flow-digital-textbooks</a> that suggests how publishers are not open to new and niche ideas that might be incredibly beneficial to education. The publishing market has a hold on education. Is it possible that the textbooks will not be available across a range of platforms, but only on a few that the publishers agree to work with? Maybe it is time we push for a more open source model... that could also work towards digitizing textbooks... or would innovate other ways for students to access "textbook"" knowledge.</div>

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Emily Lovell on 30 Jan 12

Thanks for the nudge to read the other article that you posted as well! It was a nice counterpoint to Watters and the FLOW platform seems like a promising stab at digital textbooks from an open-source standpoint.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thanks for the nudge to read the other article that you posted as well! It was a nice counterpoint to Watters and the FLOW platform seems like a promising stab at digital textbooks from an open-source standpoint.</div>

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