Posts Tagged "teaching and learning"

• The Future of Learning

  Educational Technology
  

  Beginning this September New York City will be home to Quest to Learn, one of the most innovative 6-12th grade public schools in the country, that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st century skills and literacies.
  Created in collaboration with New Visions for Public Schools and the Institute of Play, Q2L [...]

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• Florida Gets Serious About Math

  Games & Sims
  Better late than never – and just in time for the presedential election - the state of Florida is getting serious about math. New York serious game company Tabula Digita (New York Serious Game Developer Raises $6M) announced the sale of their supplemental pre-algebra and algebra DimensionM video game to 24 middle schools in Broward County, Florida, [...]

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• Death of Education > Birth of Learning

  The Biosphere
  While students embrace mobile always-connected media and devices, virtual environments, and social networks in their daily lives, schools still rely on teaching methods that were used generations ago. This short video Learning to Change, Changing to Learn, which was produced by CoSN and the Pearson Foundation, argues that this dichotomy signals the death of education [...]

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