June 20, 2011 Mission? Make learning fun. Investigators? Preteens. GameQuest? STEM studies, deeply rooted in gaming fun. I’ve been saving this post about MIT MediaLab/Education Arcade's Vanished game for today’s opening of the Games For Change festival in NYC, since their keynote speaker Al Gore has been taking questions @G4C on Twitter about best practices to engage … [Read more...]
Vanished Edu-Game: 11 Yr Old Rylan Reports “Back from the Future”
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Anita Borg Institute, applied science, Collective Knowledge Depository, decode clues, DigiGirlz, Digital Media Learning, Doug Engelbart, Dr Jen Shewmaker, eco education, EcoKids, Education Arcade, EduTech, Environmental Education, FutureLab.net, G4C, Games for Change, Games for Good, games people play, gamification, GFC2011, humanity ascending, IFTF, Institute for the Future, Jane McGonigal, MacArthur-Foundation, middle school girls, MIT Media Lab, MIT Scratch, MIT Vanished Game, preteens, Program for the Future, Project Phoenix, Ruby Skye, sci-fi narrative, SciGirls, serious-games, Smithsonian, STEM, STEM programs for girls, Sustainability, Vanished: Learning Science through gaming, Zoeys Room
Doodle 4 Google National Winner: Hope For A New Beginning
May 21, 2009 Earlier this spring I wrote about the history of the cool and everchanging logos on the Google homepage delighting us all…including my favorite salute to Seuss. Yesterday it was about Ida, the 47 million year old fossilized dinosaur...(though some at LiveScience are saying “Idaknow-about-this" ancestry-missing link bit…) Today it’s about resurgence, renewal and … [Read more...]
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