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MyBrain software

I just learned about the MyBrain software in my Think-Know Tools course with Howard Rheingold. I’m sold! This product is very efficient even though I’m not fond of the graphic display. It could be...

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Playful Learning: a Workshop at Seattle Academy

When I signed up for the Playful Learning Day on Saturday September 28, 2013 I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was already familiar with two of the big names in educational gaming: Katie Salen and Jane...

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We invent our technologies, and then our technologies reinvent us. – Marshall MacLuhan This encapsulates best the course I took from Rheingold U this summer: Think Know Tools.

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Think Know Tools – My question

Logan – Future Languages Logan in The Extended Mind theorizes that there exists an evolutionary chain of languages (1-speech, 2-writing, 3-math, 4-science and 5-computing) each of which evolved when...

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Urgent Evoke – Game by Jane McGonigal funded by World Bank Institute

I am finally getting around to posting about my experience (long ago now, 2010) with the Urgent Evoke game.  From their website: EVOKE was created by The World Bank Institute as a direct response to...

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Houston: We have a problem!

… with our language. As technology, innovation and change speed up, I have noticed that our language is not keeping up. It shows up in group discussions as participants attempt to describe a phenomenon...

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Global Ed Conference – 2013

Just finished the concluding session of the online Global Education Conference. As a volunteer moderator it was a thrill to be connected with creative people from all over the world in virtual...

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New Use for Hula Hoops?

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1918091 I would love to try this. Oftentimes an innovation is just a modified version of an existing idea.  I clipped this out of a YouTube video using TubeChop.

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U.Lab MIT Course: Transforming Business, Society and Self

It’s been awhile! I  write when I am completely inspired and enthusiastic about something. And today I am.  I found my way to Otto Scharmer’s MIT mooc: Transforming Business, Society and Self. It’s...

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U.Lab Dreaming

Zindy Zone drawings THIS IS THE DREAM I HAD THIS EARLY MORNING – 2.9.15 I went to a live play — with an African-American theme — attended by a mixed race audience. Half way through the play suddenly...

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