Category: Hacks
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Introducing Mozilla Webmaker make. learn. hack.
Building a generation of webmakers Mozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing on the web. With TOOLS, PROJECTS and EVENTS that help you create, learn and connect. Our goal: move millions of people from using the web to actively making the web. Creating a new generation of webmakers, and a more web literate…
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The Gamification of Education
Gamification [n]: the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. Gamification has tremendous potential in the education space. How can we use it to deliver truly meaningful experiences to students?
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Boosting Mental Fitness in Middle Age
A repost from the NYTimes, just food for thought today. By TARA PARKER-POPE, Editor Margaret Riegel Research shows that education is an essential element to keeping the brain fit as it ages, an issue explored by the New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen in the latest issue of Education Life. For those in midlife and…
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MinecraftEDU: Minecraft for the Classroom
After reading the original article by Audrey Watters about a year ago, I read this one with great interest as I was chasing the idea of setting up our own Minecraft server. It was interesting to read about the details, now if I can just get to affording it. It’s been almost a year since…
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Forget Cell Phone Jammers, Use A Speech Jammer
Device to silence incessant talkers created by Japanese scientists was published in The Telegraph and is recounted in full here as it is simply too much fun to contemplate what uses this could be put to. Staff Meetings? Overcrowded classrooms? Conversations with a Spouse? In a Car? In a Bar? (nod to Dr. Seuss anniversary…