Hi Everyone!
The The December Learning Technologies Newsletter is HERE!
I forgot to mention that the annual STEM Video Game Challenge is ON! Middle school and High School kids can program or design on paper their own video games, about STEM or about anything at all.
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Here are a few places where you can hear Melanie Stegman speaking about Immune Attack2 development, how to use Immune Attack in a classroom and how learning games (should optimally) get made. Melanie is also very interested in getting feedback from teachers, so if you are at any other these events,
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Online Surveys – Zoomerang.com
Please vote just once. Thank you very much for your help. Having some data to report is vital to our mission!
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http://kotaku.com/5815846/the-supreme-courts-best-arguments-for-and-against-violent-video-games?utm_source=Kotaku+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3d6360a33-UA-142218-8&utm_medium=email#viewcomments
This post excerpted what the author felt were the most compelling parts of the arguments on both sides.
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Here is the press release from the Entertainment Software Association and the ESRB:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
ESA Welcomes Sweeping U.S. Supreme Court
Ruling on Constitutional Protections for Video Games
Landmark Ruling Hailed as a Win for First Amendment and Artists
June 27,
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http://www.nsta.org/academy/2011/FellowApplication.aspx
If you are a new science teacher, you can apply to the New York Academy of Science for a summer academy designed just for you.
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Everyone seems to have an opinion about teacher’s role in the classroom of the future. Some claim that teachers should get out of the way and let kids simply have unfettered access to the internet. Others imagine a classroom in which teachers curate the vast world of information that is available and facilitate students’
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Congressional Caucus for Competitiveness in Entertainment Technology, or E-Tech was formed in February by U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kevin Brady. You can read about the Caucus and see which members of the House have joined it on the Video Game Voters Network. You can watch Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz speak on Technology and Education HERE at the Atlantic Forum on Technology in Education.
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We need you
Are you a teacher with access to PC computers? Test IA in your classroom! We spent 2010 developing an excellent test of learning and attitudes toward molecular biology. Now we need students in 7th – 12th grades to play IA1.0 for 2 class periods and and then take our survey.
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If you are a game developer, you have probably heard of the International Game Developer’s Association (IDGA). If you are a student who is interested in a career in gaming, if you make games as a hobby, or if you are a teacher/professor with students who are interested in game development you can find/recommend the local IDGA chapter and go there for camaraderie,
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We list every science game we know of on the Science Game Center! Made a science game? Looking for one? Have an opinion about one? Go to the SGC now.
