Do most educational games suck?

Thinking about education games? ... [more]

Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media

When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium, no one would have predicted that less than a decade later black and Latino youth would be just as engaged as their white, Asian, and more affluent counterparts. ... [more]

Can exercise build bigger brains?

Real excercise helps academic performance; playing video "exercise" games does not! ... [more]

Does education research measure up?

Can I please just have the raw data? Please step aside and let the mathematicians and statisticians come up with case-and-effect conclusions with confidence levels. Is it common nature to "cook" data to fit your purposes ... or maybe not release the data that does not supports your stance. In the legal profession this is withholding evidence and distorting simple facts. ... [more]

Things Schools have Banned

I just find it amazing that schools have banned things are extremely worthwhile to learning and the learning experience. I find it ironic that the title picture has a finger pointing to the word "consequences" in a paper dictionary (banned!). Is the author hinting that consequences have been banned? ... [more]

We can’t let educators off the hook

from Dangerously!Irrelevant blog

Steve Dembo said:

I don’t see it as teachers spurning technology, or choosing not to take advantage of those new ideas and tools. I think most teachers don’t even realize that there’s a decision to be made. It’s not a matter of choosing the red pill or the blue pill… if you don’t know that there are even two pills available as options. ...[more]