How Social Gaming is Improving Education Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here’s how they’re doing it. tags: videogames, Education 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School...
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Where are the savings in using GoogleApps? – Home – Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog No internal mailserver and mail back-up costs (hardware, software, maintenance).$12,000 (We were due for a replacement and running out of storage capacity) No student/staff document file server costs (hardware, software, maintenance). $84,000 (28 servers and server OS at $3000 each on a...
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Seth’s Blog: Hunters and Farmers Clearly, farming is a very different activity from hunting. Farmers spend time sweating the details, worrying about the weather, making smart choices about seeds and breeding and working hard to avoid a bad crop. Hunters, on the other hand, have long periods of distracted noticing interrupted by brief moments of...
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Life After You Chords (ver 2) by Daughtry @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com tags: no_tag Pre-Chorus A C A Believe me I won’t stop for nothin’ C D To see you so I’ve started runnin’ Chorus Posted from...
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In a world where content is continually changing, and you can learn almost anything for free, what’s the point of going to a conference? This is the question we started with in designing your Learning 2.010 Conference experience. The content is free and easy. If you want to learn how to use Facebook in your...
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BBC News – Phone texting ‘helps pupils to spell’ “A study of eight- to 12-year-olds found that rather than damaging reading and writing, “text speak” is associated with strong literacy skills. Researchers say text language uses word play and requires an awareness of how sounds relate to written English. This link between texting and literacy has proved...
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Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a long time might just be on the horizon. That is that this technology stuff can improve education. So let’s start at Mashable one of my favorite...
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I’ve been reflecting the last couple days on Apple’s new iPad. The product that, before it’s announcement, some had claim would revolutionize education. If it does…..it will be a shock to me. I have nothing against Apple (I’m typing on a MacBook that I love), I just think this piece of hardware is not what we...
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There’s been so much speculation about Apple’s new iPad – both before it was launched, and now it’s finally been unveiled in public as an upcoming product.  The arguments are various, but they seem to mostly center upon whether this ’souped up iPod Touch’ is actually ‘all that’.  In my opinion it is ‘all that’,...
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In this discussion, he lambasts 'Web 2.0 proponents' as religious cultists who contribute their time and energy, not for their own personal gain, but in the interest of creating a god-like singularity of utopian participation. I like to share my thoughts about art education with the greater community for my own...
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