Exploring History: the David Rumsey Collection Project
April 17 — There has been a huge amount of buzz about the educational potential of Google Maps and Google Earth. Now you can see these futuristic technologies integrated with history in a blast from the past.
Drones and Education – Buzzing about STEM
Apr 15 – It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superma- no wait it’s a drone, and it might be coming to your local high school!
Educational Gaming?: Classroom Aquatic
April 1 – Classroom Aquatic is certainly a very immersive virtual reality experience! Students might not get along swimmingly, though.
Exploring New Worlds: Oculus Rift and Virtual Reality
March 30 – What if you take that to the next step and immerse yourself to an entirely new dimension? Enter Oculus Rift, a head-mounted virtual reality display that will be commercially available later this year. But what does this mean for educators?
Course Spotlight: Design and Development of Games for Education
March 26 – MIT is launching an exciting in-depth course on high-quality game design next week. This is a great opportunity for a closer look at one of the fastest-growing fields in learning technology!
Video Lecturing: Education for Everyone
March 20 – Video lecturing requires technical skills, but it opens up more material than face-to-face lectures. Read on for engaging examples of this method!
MOOCs: Education for Everyone
March 16 – Imagine a future where anyone with internet access can choose the post-secondary education they want from any university around the world they like, at any time, for free. That future is already here.
Learning Through Play: ecoMUVE
March 12 – Using game mechanics and inventive design, Harvard researchers teach students to work together and think like environmental scientists.
Minecraft: A New Era of Educational Gaming?
March 9 – With nearly 19 million sales, Minecraft is one of the most popular PC video game titles of all time. It’s not just children who are interested in the game, though–several teachers across the US and Denmark have incorporated Minecraft as a curriculum elective. Learn more about these creative designs, and MinecraftEdu, in this post.