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Scaling Up a Video Game-Learning Link Isn't it time we leveled up? By Michael H. Levine & Alan Gershenfeld At an event at the White House in September, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the establishment of the Digital Promise , a nonprofit initiative created to promote digital technologies with the potential to transform teaching and learning. Experts on digital media and learning cheered this latest signal that robust experimentation with technology based on rigorous research and development would take a more prominent place in the national education reform debate. In tandem with the Digital Promise rollout, our organizations-the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and E-Line Media-announced the second year of the National STEM Video Game Challenge . This video-game-design competition is intended to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, learning among America's young people by tapping into students' natural passion for playing and making video games. Why games? Are video games really a key element of an untapped "digital promise"? We believe the answer is yes. But we are also acutely aware that realizing this promise will take a concentrated effort by dedicated scientists, game designers, teachers, supervisors, educational publishers,... This article is available to subscribers only. To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article. Already have an account? Please login. Subscribe to Education Week and Save Get a full year and save up to 45%! Premium Online + Print 37 issues + Online Access $89 You Save 45% SUBSCRIBE NOW (See details.) Premium Online 12 Months Online Access $74 You Save 38% SUBSCRIBE NOW (See details.) EDUCATION WEEK EVENTS Bringing the Community to Schools WEBINAR MARCH 27, 2:00 P.M. EASTERN REGISTER NOW. Beyond Seat-Time Requirements WEBINAR MARCH 29, 2:00 P.M. EASTERN REGISTER NOW. The Accountability Push in Virtual Learning CHAT APRIL 9, 2:00 P.M. E

A comic creation website

This site allows students to compose their own comic strips with characters, props, backgrounds, and dialogue.

This is great. It promotes critical thinking.

This site includes word scrambles, caption-writing, reviews of movie trailers, and tongue-twister games on parts of speech and vocabulary.

helping upper elementary and middle-school students break down reading passages and focus on vocabulary, context, and main idea

Cool resource for making an interactive flipbook from a pdf file

Should we avoid social media in schools or should we teach social media etiquette?

ASSISTments is a free online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction.

Impassioned students whose lives connect to learning.  'Students work harder when they have an authentic audience.'  These students accumulated over 60,000n authentic viewers.  

Life stacked the odds firmly against Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt. That didn't stop three Newark, N.J., boys born to broken homes and housing projects from growing up to become doctors. Today, their story becomes the focus of a month-long discussion by students at Central and Logan high schools.

The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand. The Goal Twurdy's goal is to provide web searchers with information that is most appropriate for them. This will mean that 10 year olds doing school assignments don't have to click through difficult material to find something they can use. It will also mean that phd students do not have to click through websites designed for kids in order to find what they are looking for.

The topic for Saturday, March 3rd will be "Technology in the Multi-ability Classroom" featuring Andrea Keller. Andrea will explore increasing the rigor of meeting the needs of all students through technology and share ways teachers can modify and adapt learning activities so that all students of all abilities have a chance to participate in digital learning.

Nice. I like that you add comments on what the resources are. This adds value to your posts and others posts. Thanks.

YOu can edit your tags. a space makes a word a new tag. You have tagged & as a separate tag category. You might want to revise that.

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A space separates words and makes them into individual tags. You might have a look at how your resources are tagged and edit them by clicking on "bookmark" and revising your tags. See also Diigo help for how to tag. You are missing the "setonhall" or setonhall15 tags for this assignment on this post but have it on others so folks can't search for and find your contributions. You might want to make the tags consistent for your own use too as when you do a search for setonhall it won't necessarily find your items tagged setonhallteaching or setonhall15. Consistent tagging will make life easier. See assignment 2 instructions.

A broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence, psychology, history, film and theater, cultural studies, and philosophy.

New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games along with their social and cultural context. The Handbook of Computer Game Studies fills this need with a definitive look at the subject from a broad range of perspectives. Contributors come from cognitive science and artificial intelligence, developmental, social, and clinical psychology, history, film, theater, and literary studies, cultural studies, and philosophy as well as game design and development. The text includes both scholarly articles and journalism from such well-known voices as Douglas Rushkoff, Sherry Turkle, Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman, and others.

student projects

David, Washington International School Feb 22, 2012 - Two years ago, on the 12th of January, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake. With a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, it was the largest earthquake that had hit the region in 200 years. According to the Haitian...

David, Washington International School Feb 22, 2012 - Two years ago, on the 12th of January, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake. With a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, it was the largest earthquake that had hit the region in 200 years. According to the Haitian...

The Student News Action Network was created, and is maintained, by students and teachers at Washington International School in collaboration with TakingITGlobal and bureau schools worldwide

This project, although adult-based, sends a powerful message via video; I believe it could inspire children to create similar projects of their own with a powerful message to the world. In this way, it may be used as part of transformational learning in our classrooms. 

Contains some great technology ideas.