Classic ed-tech games and build-your-own methods are now joined by the "gamification" movement.
by Elizabeth Corcoran
| 27 October 2010
There are three types of digital games being used in schools. Which you prefer speaks volumes about the role you believe schools should play
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Tablets can help students and track teachers, but not everyone is on board.
by Alistair Croll
| @acroll
| 20 October 2010
Tablet computing can help reverse the decline of U.S. education, but there's a side effect. Because tablets are digital, we can analyze how students learn and examine teachers' competence. It opens the question: What happens when the digital classroom challenges powerful teachers' unions?
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Sara Chipps on IT education and how women are navigating the tech world.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh
| 6 October 2010
Computer science programs have an iffy track record recruiting women into the tech space. Sara Chipps, co-founder of Girl Develop IT, has a new approach: create an inclusive environment where dumb questions are encouraged and practical application is key. In this Q&A;, Chipps discusses her project and the pressures women face in the tech world.
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Thomas Kalil: What would education look like after a Maker make-over?
by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| 4 October 2010
During a recent workshop, Thomas Kalil of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy explored the impact of the DIY mindset on education and industry. The full text of Kalil's talk is included in this post.
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A data-driven architecture could disrupt the school system and improve it the more students use it.
by Marie Bjerede
| 28 September 2010
Parents want to understand their kids' achievements beyond letters on a report card. If a wealth of multi-dimensional assessments were only a click away, how many families would use them and in so doing help make them better?
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Digital textbooks have reached a moment of punctuated equilibrium.
by Osman Rashid
| 21 September 2010
We're poised to see all the years of digital textbook predictions and debate left behind. Change is here, and it's driven by technology, by the arrival of ebooks, and by a consensus among publishers and educators that the time is now.
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