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Jane McGonigal is talking about how we can connect real life to games.

in this video, Jane McGonigal describes that gaming is used everyday and online gaming is becoming more and more important. She also says how online gamers spend about 8 billion hours weekly just playing online games. Also how she is trying to change it from just having fun but to solve real life problems.

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

I thought this article was very interesting. The article really made me think about how social digital media can be affected by the government.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. (Of course, on "The Late, Late Show," no one ever insists that the monster is really doing us a favor by making its victims more "accountable.") But let's put aside metaphors and even opinions for a moment so that we can review some indisputable facts on the subject.

The article talks about that you chose who you want to be. How facebook shapes your identity.

this video is about video game graphics is improving and also the virtual world that gamers has. and also they what gamers learn through games are being relate to the real world.

Daivd talks about how games has evolved over time and how it can better our life.

This TED video is about how games develop over time and the graphic of the game improves as technology improves.It also explains how games is taking over and how you want to be in the virtual world more than the real world.

This short article talks about how terrorist are now starting to use the internet to plan, network, and even raise money to be able to bomb the United States instead of trying to destroy it (the internet).

Many teachers and other school officials in the U.S. are starting to embrace the use of social media in the classroom. With the ever growing popularity of sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Myspace, educators feel that it is important to bridge the gap between the outside world of interactive social media and today's learning methods. Allowing social media and other websites in the classroom has its pros and cons, of course.

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This article is mainly about a man who thought of an idea to teach kids to make video games and in that same process be educated by learning engineering, digital literacy, math, and any other knowledge that is needed to make a video game. The plan is to have kids make these video games revolving important issues affecting the world, such as nutrition, the ecosystems, and so much more.

In the article, "Why Schools Should Learn To Use Online Services Like Facebook & YouTube Rather Than Banning Them," Mike Masnick argues that incorporating Facebook and other social networking sites, would be beneficial to both students and teachers. He says that by trying to fuse these social media sites with the teacher's curriculum, it will make education and school work more relevant to the students lives.

Boys, masculinities and literacy: Addressing the issues This article is from the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, written by Wayne Martino. Through interviews, gathering data and reading over 30 books on boys, masculinity and literacy, he discusses these problems while offering solutions for the "underachievement and lack of engagement" with literacy for boys. (9). Right away Martino explains that not all boys are underachieving but overall test scores have shown a general pattern of boys struggling in literacy practices. He offers many reasons that may be causing this literacy crisis for males, as well as solutions that need to being in schooling.

In this article it states some facts that about who bullies, what cyber bullying is and if there is a way to stop it. Attacking someone on the internet is a lot easier to do because it can be from someone anonymous. It states in the article that most of the time the victim is someone that goes to the bully's school. The parents so be involved in the children's lives and ask question. Do not assume they are doing something bad on the internet. "All school children in the UK are taught to "zip it, block it and flag it" -- don't share information, block contacts and tell an adult."

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Interactive music video from Arcade Fire that uses your home as part of the footage

This article discusses the effect of music on improving memory. It states that people can recognize a song even when it is sung in different ways which shows that the brain focuses on certain constant properties of a song.

This article explores the influence of teacher's assumptions and attitudes about boys and their learning practices. The introduction of this article begins explaining "overwhelming evidence that boys are falling behind in our education system"(74). It further explains that this problem is crucial to boys everywhere because boys with low literacy skills are less likely to engage, complete and advance their education. Henderson argues that there are multiple factors that are contributing to boy's low level or underachievement in learning. Teachers, students, parents, siblings and friends play a vital role in shaping children's literacy practices outside of school that are then instilled inside of school. Henderson asks an interesting question, why do the literacy practices at school, home and in the community have to be different? Why can't all of these practices be viewed equally important and valuable? Henderson questions whether boy's bad behavior in school is a result of underachievement or is it the cause of it? Do teacher's play the most important role in shaping children, especially boys, learning identity in school?

New(ish) forms of digital music. CHIP music. Made from 8 bit game devices.