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Palm Pilots and Global Education

The Thinking Stick

A quick 30 minute conversation about the Palm Pilot program I rolled out in Saudi Arabia in 2002, Gamification of Education and Global Education. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to chat with The Edupreneur Podcast. Always a great time talking with students.

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More Now: Robust Infrastructure

EdTechTeam

This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of More Now: A Message From The Future for The Educators of Today by Mark Wagner, Ph.D., Technology and the infrastructure that enables it—from the devices to the networks to the cloud—are vital to modern education. our founder and CEO. Get your copy today. And to some extent, that’s okay.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. Samsung’s Interactive Whiteboard was ready out-of-the-box and was an easy-to-use product for educators to easily provide personalized experiences.

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50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning in 2015. by TeachThought Staff. We’ve discussed the merits and utility of video games in the classroom before, so we won’t beleaguer the point. The most basic test of playability is this: A well-designed game should not confuse or frustrate the player. Cognitive Load. Innovation. Pretty cool, huh?

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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

Edsurge

At the time there was also a new effort to create standards for education technology, the Instructional Management Systems project, which helped convinced me there was real potential for what we now call learning management systems. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

” By centering these two conditions, by taking them seriously as scholars and practitioners, I believe we can crack open some of the crises that we are experiencing, in higher education and beyond, always recognizing as George Siemens reminded us yesterday, of complexities. It’s always sunny in education technology.