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"As games continue to establish themselves into our daily lives, the future as we know it will not be the same. They don't just hold the power to influence our life, but also have great implications for Learning. Below are a few interesting talks from TED's past, focusing on games, which are sure to get you thinking."

"The Digital Technologies curriculum exists within the Technologies learning are of the Australian Curriculum. Implementation will commence in Victorian schools from 2015 with full implementation expected in all Victorian schools by 2017 .. Start now to familiarse yourself with some of the terminology within this new P-10 curriculum."

he Cisco Binary Game is the best way to learn and practice the binary number system. It is great for classes, students and teachers in science, math, digital electronics, computers, programming, logic and networking. It is also a LOT of fun to play for anyone who likes to play fast-paced arcade games.

".. data visualizations can .. allow you to see the concepts that you're learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what's currently happening on Twitter."

"In this blog post, we will learn how to create an ultra-simple macro in Excel 2013 to introduce you to the concept."

"STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - all of which are critically important for students to learn (regardless of the economy or jobs). Our governments tout STEM because of the growth opportunities, without looking at where the growth really is. Within all the noise about the "STEM job gap," our focus should be on computer science - on the software and digital hardware that is revolutionizing the world around us and disrupting every industry known to man."

The cloud is cool. But it's not always there. That's what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon's cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline. Foursquare said the failure kept it and other services from working for "about 2 hours," according to an email from spokeswoman Erin Gleason.

"But just as changing the early European perspective on the universe had deep social and cultural reverberations, technologically driven disruption of our "self," and challenges to what we believe to be our fundamental identity, are potentially very disturbing psychologically and destabilizing socially"

"Timeline charts are great for providing quick snapshots of historical events. .. Then it strike me, why not make a visual time line of Microsoft Excel ? So I did that instead."