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Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has amassed a set of basic principles that describe the learning process . Following are four of these key principles, with examples of how each plays out in traditional training and in game-based learning. Principle 1: Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning. Obviously, learners who have…
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A QR-Code Treasure Hunt is a fun, simple way to get students using their mobile devices to continue learning outside of lesson time. Here’s how we set one up at the International School of Toulouse with some guidance on how to do the same with your own students using the QR Treasure Hunt Generator at…
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… The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit.…
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It is increasingly becoming recognized that if the Torah is to guide the lives of young Jews, it must itself come alive, and be an experience rather than just another objective in an already long day of school and extracurricular activities. This notion is supported by a Dr. Jack Wertheimer’s landmark study, Schools that Work:…
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Why wasn’t this magnetic cello made in the 70′s? – Hack a Day
Why wasn’t this magnetic cello made in the 70′s? – Hack a Day
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The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series
The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series I can’t believe this was posted when it was.
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Thinking iphone5? Here’s some food for thought (via Mashable)
Thinking iphone5? Here’s some food for thought (via Mashable) Though I’m an Android snob at heart I’m a sucker for infographics.
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MAKING GAME BASED LEARNING #GBL – RESEARCH & PRINCIPLES My friend Professor Sara Grimes was looking for some research on game based learning and put a tweet out looking for resources. We’ve spent the last 9 months researching, thinking about learning and gbl and building technology for our gbl projects (Felicity from Thin Air is…
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The fourth edition of the Moscow Biennale kicked off yesterday and runs through October 30. This year, the event, titled “Rewriting Worlds,” has focused on new media in art. Computer-assisted media installations and sound art dominate, though the traditional domains of painting and sculpture still make the cut. Peter Weibel, who heads the Center for…
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“Do the risky thing,” I blurted, before my scruples intervened in the split second between phrases. My concerns went like this: I’m not her dissertation director; I don’t want to create conflict in her progress toward her degree; I don’t want to set up unreasonable expectations about what her department will actually support. And so…