The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What are the top games that can help students learn?
I asked Susanna Pollack, President of Games for Change, what she believes are the key improvements needed in the next decade to make games better educational tools. “If we want kids to play games for learning, the games need to be as compelling as Call of Duty, Skyrim, and DDR,” she commented. “We’ve seen this happen with Minecraft and Assassin’s Creed, games that weren’t created to be educational...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
“The study of ecology will replace other required science courses and will be combined with learning math and social science, as needed. Students will best learn principles of ecology, fundamentals of math, and key social science concepts by studying real environmental issues, both locally and globally.” — Dr. Tony Wagner The Global Search for Education consistently focuses on how to better prepare students for the...
The Global Search for Education: Bring on the Change
“We have to keep remembering our purpose. In education it is to grow people and to help society evolve.” — Peter Senge At the IB Heads World Conference in The Hague, I talked to Peter Senge, the renowned expert on systems, business management and learning, and senior lecturer at MIT. His bestselling book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, teaches companies how to be smarter by...
The Global Search for Education: Your Mission is To Play!
“Our technology targets the more basic ability of an individual to perceive and prioritize conflicting streams of information (or ‘interference’) which should allow an individual to control his or her goals in sensory rich environments, like everyday life.” — Eddie Martucci Tap Screen to Start! Project: EVO is a mobile game platform that trains your brain to ignore distractions and stay focused. Pilot...
The Global Search for Education: The New Higher Ed
“Members of our Founding Class have secured internships and positions at Ashoka, Learn Capital, Santa Fe Institute, Uber, and other great institutions – equivalent to some of the best opportunities presented to rising seniors or graduates of the Ivy League.” — Ben Nelson Every day the demand for an American higher education increases worldwide. But one of the crucial blocks to achieving a degree is the costly...
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