Game Based Learning: Katie Salen (video) on Learning with Games (2010 Edutopia) A professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design talks about the value of games and the empowerment of play.
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Gamification Powerful Tool For STEM
A wonderful article posted today at STEMwire on gamification and game-based learning. Read the original article at: http://stemwire.org/2013/07/15/more-than-just-play-game-based-learning-environments-are-powerful-tools-for-stem/ More than just play: game-based learning environments are powerful tools for STEM Patrick Stinnett, a technology education teacher at Oconomowoc High School, makes sure that students in his Elements of Game Design class understand one thing very…
Game Based Learning at Belle Sherman
Game Based Learning Last spring, Belle Sherman partnered with Imagine Learning, language and literacy software company, to provide game-based activities for learning English, struggling readers, students with disabilities and early childhood education students. For three months, selected students in pre-Kindergarten to fifth grade participated in a pilot program, using the software an average of 20…
Learning Technologies 2012 – Ray Kurzweil – The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One
Learning Technologies- The web within us: When minds and machines become one video by Ray Kurzweil (excerpts below) The onset of the 21st century is an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human is both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy, and…