21st Century Learning and Teaching

One of the hottest trends in education evolution is the introduction of games into the classroom. Gamification of just about anything has been tried by teachers around the globe.

If you’re interested in using games in the classroom, where should you start? We strongly recommend checking out the following 10 colleges and see what they’re doing. Then build on that and take your game-based learning to the next level! Get it? Levels? Video game joke?

Read more, very interesting...:

http://edudemic.com/2012/10/colleges-game-based-learning/

FULL marks to Apple for devising ways to improve how science, mathematics and other topics are taught in primary and secondary schools across America.

This is what Sir Ken Robinson, a leading authority on education reform, calls the “industrial model” of education. As professor of education at Warwick University, Dr Robinson led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the British government, and has spent the past decade trying to prevent education authorities from stifling their students’ inner passions.

===> In his view, creativity is as important in education as literacy—and should be given equal emphasis. <===