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Hackers Wanted: Luring Young Web Warriors Is a Priority and a Game

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 3:47pm

In the eighth grade, Arlan Jaska figured out how to write a simple script that could switch his keyboard’s Caps Lock key on and off 6,000 times a minute. When friends weren’t looking, he slipped his program onto their computers. It was all fun and games until the program spread to his middle school.

The New York Times

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Harnessing Gaming for the Classroom

Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 5:59pm

Paul Howard-Jones thinks he knows the answer to a question that has long puzzled both parents and professors: Why is it that the same teenagers who turn sullen and despondent when faced with a half hour of learning French verbs or organic compounds are happy to spend hours mastering the computer game Minecraft’s physics engine or the counterfactual history in Call of Duty?

The New York Times

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New Books

Noteworthy Books

Recommended reading for district leaders.

Kurt Eisele-Dyrli

District Administration, Jan 2011

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Reaching Digital Natives on Their Terms

Making your technology environment student centered.

Alan Dessoff

District Administration, Apr 2010

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EDUGAMING: Playing to Learn

A guide to one segment of education technology

Kurt Eisele-Dyrli

District Administration, Apr 2009

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21st-century learning

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X-FACTOR: Finalists

Two districts won a one-year unlimited license for Academy of READING and Academy of MATH including training and implementation

Angela Pascopella

District Administration, Jan 2009

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Math Video Gaming Engages

Problem/Solution

New York City Department of Education finds curriculum solution.

District Administration, Jan 2008

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