If a game is assigned as homework, is it still a game?
Ok, it’s two days after the event and I’m coming off the high that was the 10th Games for Change festival. Admidst a storm of great ...
Read MoreAnanya Sen Gupta: A Reflection on Mentorship
About the Author: Ananya Sen Gupta MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spent sometime in the sof...
Read MoreMentor Spotlight: Ozge Yeloglu
We sat down with amazing mentor Ozge Yeloglu of Halifax, Canada to hear about her mentorship story with her team The APPstronauts. Check out her story...
Read MoreIridescent at Emoti-Con! NYC 2013
This Saturday, June 1st, Explainers and Technovation Challenge were two Iridescent programs among the presenters at the Emoti-Con! NYC Youth Digital M...
Read MoreAlumni Spotlight: Jasmine Gao
We sat down with Technovation 2011 Alumni, Jasmine Gao to catch up and see what she has been up since her with us as a Technovation Droidette. Jasmine...
Read MoreBadge based gamification: is this just the thing that education needs?
Before these trends get too overblown, I’d like to dissect and compare two terms that are on their way to becoming the next big thing in education: ...
Read MoreThe costs to gamify education
In a previous post, I laid out what it means to gamify education (short answer is: incorporate best teaching practices). If you read that post, ...
Read MoreGamification and Education: the Core Principles
I always like to say the gaming industry has done in 30 years what the educational industry hasn’t been able to do in 300, namely make self-sust...
Read MoreConceptualize, Protype, Remix, and Test Small!
It’s a great time to learn coding! Everyone from will.i.am to Chris Bosh to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook are stating the facts: software is now ...
Read MoreThe problem with MOOCs, you see, is that…
…I don’t like them very much. It was Thursday morning, and the Mozilla Teachtheweb MOOC was about to kick off. I was languishing in a simple d...
Read MoreHow to Live a Technovation Life
You might be thinking, “What is a Technovation life and why would I want to live one?” For the last 3 months, I have been a mentor in the Technova...
Read MoreWhat is my child learning?
As a parent you have the unique privilege of seeing your child learn over many years. If your child is very young, it is very hard to pinpoint what ex...
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