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This movie trailer gets at what I was trying to say the other day…
From DSC: The other day, I was lamenting that the love of learning gets lost waaayyy too quickly in our youth. With drop out rates in the 25-30% range nationwide, we must turn this around. A piece of...
View ArticleStudents Solve Math Mysteries in Sackboys and the Mysterious Proof
Students Solve Math Mysteries in Sackboys and the Mysterious Proof – from spotlight.macfound.org with Kan Yang Li Spotlight talks with Kan Yang Li about games-based learning and the new math-related...
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Surviving the future
From biotech visionaries growing new body parts, to in vitro meat, from a global sensor web that monitors the health of the earth’s biosphere, to a massive effort to reverse-engineer the human brain,...
View ArticleScary stuff — the entire world needs to be much more aware of privacy-related...
Recording everything: Digital storage as an enabler of authoritarian governments — by John Villasenor, a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and in the Center for Technology Innovation at...
View ArticleOne of the 7 Concepts for Effective Teaching: “Collaboration Beats...
Excerpt from Seven Concepts for Effective Teaching — from Astronomy Education Review by Andrew Fraknoi CONCEPT 2: “COLLABORATION BEATS COMPETITION” There is no need to make an introductory astronomy...
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Getting through the gate (i.e. someone’s attention); the power of gamification.
4 ways to gamify learning in your classroom — from tophatmonocle.com Excerpt: This post explores the role of gamification in education and provides four examples of how you can bring the learning...
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