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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase.

EdTech 40
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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. Last month. Authess $2.2

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What Does the Popularity of Pokémon Go Mean for K-12 Gaming? A Q-and-A With James Gee

Marketplace K-12

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. James Gee is one of the most influential voices in the educational gaming community. He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004).

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It’s Pedagogy Go With Location-Based Mobile Learning At The University Of South Australia

EdNews Daily

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education. Background. The games developed have been played over 1,700 times.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. What do we believe about education?