Tom Vander Ark, Jan 17, 2017, Getting Smart. In this episode of Tom Vander Ark’s podcast on Getting Smart, Zoran Popović, Director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, chats about computer science, gaming, virtual reality and how we...
By Zoran Popović, Enlearn Founder & Chief Scientist– Technology enhanced learning has delivered successful “pockets of advancement” in schools, but there has been very little success at scale that has made a profound difference. So we need to ask ourselves...
We’re dealing with 100-year-old conditions in American classrooms today that simply have not changed. There have been changes in educational standards and assessments, but what goes on in the classroom hasn’t changed. This goes to the heart of the teacher’s work life....
When I think about the biggest challenges that currently stand in the way of large-scale success in our classrooms, I come back to the fact that the public still doesn’t fully understand how data advances student learning. I also believe that many school districts...
I like technology, and I strongly believe it has an integral place in education. I’ve believed this for decades, ever since I wrote my doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1970’s on how kids learn using computers. Technology helps children think about how to solve...
