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Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills

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When I was in graduate school at Vanderbilt University, I studied digital learning with an emphasis on gaming for learning. What life skills can be taught and learned in a gaming environment? Video games are a constructivist-learning environment. . Follow her on Twitter .

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

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According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. “Ohio State collaborates with Apple to launch digital learning initiative,” the university announced in October. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run. They’re amazing.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Margret Atkinson ISTE Global PLN leadership team, ISTE Global Collaboration Professional Learning Network @[link] The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Global Collaboration Professional Learning Network (PLN) promotes digital technologies for connecting and collaborating beyond the classroom walls.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Betsy DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince, is the founder of the private military company Blackwater, infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. There was a friendly interview in Edsurge with the Edgenuity CEO, but no mention of any impropriety.).