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PlayMaker School. Overview Designed and developed by GameDesk, PlayMaker School at New Roads reflects a revolution in education designed to prepare students for 21st century success.

PlayMaker School

The school model is founded upon the principle that students—acknowledged as experts with valuable experiences—should be empowered to create meaningful relationships with knowledge by interacting, playing, and making. Playfulness allows the students to safely take risks and troubleshoot through a variety of challenges. Research shows that students are more engaged when play is integrated; through playful problem solving practices, they develop effective 21st century learning skills. At PlayMaker, the aim is to make school feel less like “school” and more like real life so that students experience purposeful learning. Developing Meaning Our model allows the students to use their existing intuitions and life experiences as the starting point to engage in learning opportunities. Learning Through Play Learning Through Making. Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact.

Blue Mars Blog: Educate with Blue Mars. --Jasmine Spearing, Marketing Associate According to U.S.

Blue Mars Blog: Educate with Blue Mars

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, “more than a quarter of U.S. students drop out of high school, and more than a third of our high school graduates are unprepared for college or a career.” We live in an age of instant communication and readily-accessible technology. The question is, how can these tools be brought into the classroom in a responsible way that allows students to gain the knowledge conveyed through traditional education, while harnessing the potentials of technology?

The Hawaii Technology Academy might just have an answer. This kind of immersive learning teaches students traditional math and science skills, as well as history and social studies, while at the same time incorporating valuable technical skills such as web design, graphic design, and media literacy. So what does this mean for the future? For more information about Hawaii Technology Academy, and uses for Blue Mars in education, visit: Badges. What is a Badge?

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Badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc. (Source: Dictionary.com) A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-location game, Foursquare, badges have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts. A “digital badge” is an online record of achievements, tracking the recipient’s communities of interaction that issued the badge and the work completed to get it. Digital Badges vs Open Badges A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges are: Free and open: Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. Open Badges make it easy to: What is Mozilla's Open Badges project?

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Open Source iPhone Apps List – Real App Store Code Examples!

A For those that have seen similar listings on other sites using the exact wordings, and links below welcome to the source for the original list. Also included are some open source iPad apps, and universal open source iOS apps. It can be tough to learn how to develop, especially when it comes to finding complete examples.

That’s why I put this list together. Each of these open source iPhone apps is not just open source, but has been in the app store, and all but one are in there right now. Last Update: 4/11/2014 Before going on to the apps, please share these open source iOS apps with your Twitter followers by clicking here. Here is the open source iphone app list in alphabetical order: 1. 2048 - A SpriteKit based version of the game 2048.. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. audioGraph - An audio processing graph demonstration app. Make your own mods for Minecraft: Setting up MCP (Mac)

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