Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why

Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why

Alan November, June 16, 2017, eSchool News. Instead of rewarding students for how many problems they solve, here’s what schools should be focusing on instead. If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic...
Is Adaptive Learning the Way to Get Schools into Learning Games?

Is Adaptive Learning the Way to Get Schools into Learning Games?

By Christopher B. Allen – Feb 25, 2016, Games and Learning Adaptive learning might be the hottest catch phrase in ed tech at the start of 2016, and some of the biggest education heavyweights are gearing up to pitch their own versions of the learning technology...
How online gamers are solving science’s biggest problems

How online gamers are solving science’s biggest problems

A new generation of online games don’t just provide entertainment – they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe By Dara Mohammadi, TheGuardian For all their virtual accomplishments, gamers aren’t feted for their...