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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

EduDemic June 19, 2012


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Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:56 PM PDT
microsoft-surface-heroEarlier this evening, Microsoft unveiled it's future. Quite simply, the tech giant is pinning it's hopes, dreams, and revenue to the tablet-friendly Windows 8 as well as a new brand of tablet. We've seen Windows 8 and it looks like an easy-to-use, fluid, and streamlined approach to operating systems. It's about time.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:15 PM PDT
june-thumbUtopian visions of learning are tempting, if for no other reason than they absolve us of accountability to create it right now, leading to nebulous romanticizing about how powerful learning could be if we just did more of X and Y...or is that not the case?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:49 AM PDT
textbookThe results are in. And they're depressing. The current state of math textbooks is downright terrifying but somehow not surprising. That's according to a new report by ClassroomWindow.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT
diceGamification is the application of game mechanics to a non-game entities--learning systems for example. It is also extremely flexible, able to fit the needs to a variety of environments. But this can also make it confusing to implement. Here's how one teacher did it.


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