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This PBS video features the foremost thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the field. The link also includes extended interviews with John Seely Brown, James Gee, Henry Jenkins and more...

Design Thinking for Educators Workshop Edutopia, IDEO and Riverdale Design Thinking is an approach to addressing challenges in a thoughtful and fun way, where you get to apply the 4Cs -- collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication -- to your own work as you develop new solutions for your classroom, school, and community.

"Prezi now offers three ways to brainstorm. When you create a new Prezi, you have the option to choose one of the templates you see here. If you're logged into Prezi right now, you can click one of the images and jump into a new Prezi based on the template. While editing, you or your students can click Share and invite other people to collaborate."

"A physical, interactive web design kit created to facilitate client conversation and brainstorming during the discovery and design phase."

A guide for instructors interested in transforming a course, and their instruction, to use research-based principles and improve student learning.

"A multi-disciplinary group designing and researching new technologies for education. We understand new technologies not only as a way to optimize the existing educational system, but as a transformative force that can generate radically new ways of knowing and learning."

"The theories behind communities of practice The design of teaching often integrates different theories of learning. Communities of practice are one of the ways in which experiential learning, social constructivism, and connectivism can be combined, illustrating the limitations of trying to rigidly classify learning theories. Practice tends to be more complex. What are communities of practice? Definition:  Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Wenger, 2014"

"The Center for Media & Social Impact is an innovation lab and research center that studies, designs and showcases media for social impact."

Game Design Tool Kit http://education.mit.edu/blogs/carole/2014/11/05 The Learning Games Network (LGN) and FableVision have partnered to create the Game Design Tool Kit (GDTK), a free online resource designed to help teachers use game design more extensively in their curriculum. Offered as a series of resources, the GDTK is available for download by teachers at no cost as a comprehensive handbook. Features of the Game Design Toolkit include: - A lesson plan guide - Research and design prompts - Step-by-step instructions - Discussion guides Implementation of the GDTK can be condensed into as brief of a span of time as a few days or can be spread out over a quarter or a semester.

"University of Wisconsin - Stout This rubric may be used for self-assessment and peer feedback. Game Rubric Assessing Student Learning in Virtual Simulations and Serious Games"

The Game Design Tool Kit goo.gl/JB7suY Download Game Design Tool Kit: http://goo.gl/IvOtYB The Learning Games Network (LGN) and FableVision have partnered to create the Game Design Tool Kit (GDTK), a free online resource designed to help teachers use game design more extensively in their curriculum. Offered as a series of resources, the GDTK is available for download by teachers at no cost as a comprehensive handbook. Features of the Game Design Toolkit include: - A lesson plan guide - Research and design prompts - Step-by-step instructions - Discussion guides Implementation of the GDTK can be condensed into as brief of a span of time as a few days or can be spread out over a quarter or a semester.

"Why Wearables Are the New Gateways to Human Knowledge"

"Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming" (deck, 2019.09.18)

"[I]f it becomes necessary to use remote synchronous class delivery, instructors should monitor how this mode of delivery impacts students, especially in the areas of participation and exam scores" (¶10).

"PODCAST: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition"

"The Center for Teaching and Learning's longest-running lecture series, Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching, invites faculty winners of Stanford's major teaching awards to deliver a lecture on a teaching topic of their choice. "

"24:41 Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Stanford Commencement Address by Stanford 39,883 views"

"PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations."