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Whitney Burke Profile Picture
By Whitney Burke 09/07/2011 - 9:00am Comments
Duke University’s Cathy Davidson has staked out a reputation as a creative intellectual force committed to transforming the industrial model of education for the digital age. In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the...
How 'Attention' Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn Blog Image
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By John Jones 09/06/2011 - 7:20am Comments
Across the U.S., students are returning to their schools and college campuses. It also appears to be the beginning of a mini-revolution in the way digital media and learning are seen to affect the underlying structure of our educational system...
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By Barry Joseph 09/01/2011 - 8:55am Comments
If you haven’t yet heard about Minecraft, then get ready. We can’t go to an education conference without hearing talk about it. The widely popular sandbox game has sold more than 3 million units, though it’s still in beta. Each player gets...
Worthy Reads (Sept)
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By Doug Belshaw 08/29/2011 - 6:35am Comments
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, hit the headlines recently with an attack on the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in UK schools. It “focuses on teaching how to use software,” he said to the audience gathered for the...
What Google, Open Source, Digital Literacies have in Common
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By Antero Garcia 08/22/2011 - 9:50am Comments
Over the course of four days earlier this summer at a lush retreat in Seattle, I had the opportunity to write and engage with some of the most exciting teachers I’ve been able to interact with in my career. Aside from the fact that I spent most...
Website Accelerates Teacher-to-Teacher Learning
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By Barry Joseph 08/18/2011 - 2:55pm Comments
The latest fascinating report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, "Families Matter: Designing Media for a Digital Age," offers one of the first large-scale studies to explore ideas parents have about their young children’s use and access of media...
Great Resources (August Edition): Youth Culture Blog Image
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By Lyndsay Grant 08/15/2011 - 3:30pm Comments
The stories we tell about ourselves are immensely powerful. In a digital age, how do we use social media to construct and tell these stories? How we explain who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going constitute important...
Life Narratives in Social Media  Blog Image
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By Elisabeth Jacknis 08/12/2011 - 8:50am Comments
Take 40 precocious fifth graders, a box full of iPhones, and a group of game designers and educators, stir, and release onto the busy streets of New York City. What may sound like chaos is actually Mobile Quest, a mobile game design camp in its...
Turning Fifth Graders into Game Designers and Mobile Learners Blog Image
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By Razeen Zaman 08/08/2011 - 7:10am Comments
Peals of laughter ring across the room as teens watch other teens maneuver to avoid being hit on the head. There are no bullies here - actually, game designer Kaho Abe is presenting a video clip of a game she created where the goal is to avoid...
Youth Learn Design Thinking at Digital-Age Summer Camp Blog Image
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By monika hardy 08/01/2011 - 12:15pm Comments
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This insight from Anne Frank is evidenced today all across the world in education and many other domains. People are doing amazing things. Start ups...
Wanted: Radical Collaborations to Re-enchant Education Blog Image