On a slight scroll down the home page you can find this recently aired PBS documentary. Would love to hear comments from the community.

"In This Session What do teachers really think about digital games in the classroom? Join us for our community's next webinar for the just-released findings of a year-long research project, sponsored by BrainPOP and the Gates Foundation, that investigates teachers' attitudes and beliefs on game-based learning. Michael Levine and Jessica Millstone, Executive Director and Research Consultant at The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, will showcase the findings of this national survey that was conducted with 500 teachers nationwide who are currently integrating digital games into their classes.......

"I dig science" " virtual fossil dig environment that teaches science in the context of being immersed in a location that takes into account social and cultural factors...

I came across this website in the context of an article on the importance of scientific accuracy and how it stimulates inquiry.

International journal of learning and media . This is an almost brand new journal ( open access too 1) and covers topics that are highly relevant to our readings. I fished out lives at war from this journal as well as an engaging article on virtual worlds by Thomas and Brown...

Hard to resist such a title ! Lives at war is a online virtual reality game designed to teach world war 2 history to British pupils. The use of archival videos in the game within the context of objects is a creative blend of videos and VW for education. Another interesting example of a VW that exemplifies situated learning.

To that heading, viewers can explore ambitious use of technological tools to improve science teaching and learning

Conceptual change is aided by model building. Visualizing the relationships between different components of the model using a graphical interface is a powerful technological capability. Powersim is one such tool. Such an iterative model building activity to predict theoretically principled outcomes is stated to be conceptually engaging. There are other tools like Stella and VSim that fall into the same category.

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Not quite as dynamic as the school of one usage of data. Still, they offer individual and comparative data analysis for teachers to work with.

Yesterday afternoon, some of us were at a talk by Prof. Alex Pentland I found several of the topics tie back to our class discussion. In particular, his thoughts that only the individual should have ownership over personal data and others may seek permission to access it was, I felt appropriate. Of course for young students it appears more complicated. I am considering reading his papers ( at least the non technical parts :) His ideas can impact learning in the class room too ! Please share your thoughts !

A video on their home page ties into our class discussion.

A range of education related posts that I am positive are updated regularly. For sure, bookmark it onto your browser !

Exciting video. Please share any gesture based computing resources you come across - prg115@ Gesture based computing is the topic of my assignment. On another note, I really like a quote from this talk "Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that" I think I understand it.....

Here is another $35 tablet from Singapore called the I-slate. Every great solution has got to address a real pain - this learning tablet tackles the lack of electric power in several locations around the globe. There is some mention of what it can and cannot do on the technology front. The learning programs embedded are not elaborated.

This is a great magazine ( as I am just figuring out ) Best of all, they offer 3 credits on creating a free account and make some of their archived content free. Even better, they are on audible. Love it !

This conference proceeding summary could be a useful report for you.

This website has links to several useful resources but it is not easy to navigate. They work on helping higher education teachers effectively use technology.

#edchat A twitter sharing session for teacher's hosted every tuesday 12pm EST. Attempts to foster teacher professional development / updates to research in education. I can't comment till I've tried it. Check out the web site and tell me your thoughts.

Considering the complexity of modern day research, finding opportunities for students to make real contributions to science is a challenge. I am yet to play with this tool. Would high school students be able to use it ? ( I hope , my fellow graduate students who spend 5 years of their life chasing that one elusive protein structure are aware of this tool : )