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Esther Quinn (1924-2013) RIP

Clark Quinn

She also was continually restless, courtesy of an overactive thyroid gland, and it was a family joke that she’d say she was finally going to sit and watch a movie, but soon she’d be up making snacks or doing some other thing around the house. Her brain remained strong long after her body began to fail her.

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Using Game Design To Create Accomplishment Based Learning, Julie Dirksen #astdtk13 @usablelearning

Learning Visions

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference in San Jose, California. Think a 13 hour Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon. You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. We think it has to do with brain glucose. Your brain on Tetris.

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2013

OpenSesame

2013 is rapidly approaching and if you’re like the rest of the OpenSesame community, you’re busy evaluating your successes in 2012 and thinking about ways to be more effective in 2013. We’ve scoured the web for the top 100 tools available to help you do what you dream in 2013. You don’t have to go it alone.

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

It used to be just newspapers where we got our news, then came radio, then TV, then Internet, then our brains exploded. I mentioned above there’s so much stuff coming at us we’re likely to experience a brain explosion. Could you imagine a movie 40 years ago at 3 hours long? There’s also a ton of crap.

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Deep learning

Learning with e's

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. All of these were possible at the time the movie was being produced, and have been for some time.

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The psychology of gamification in education: why rewards matter for learner engagement.

Paradiso

We all know it is there, and that clearly millions of people love gaming, but video games just don’t seem to get everyone excited in the same way that, say, movies do. The reality is that the video game (gamification) industry is twice the size of the movie industry and three times the size of the music industry, going on 2013 figures.

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Minimally invasive education

Learning with e's

It was conducted in the run up to the EDEN Annual Conference which will take place in Oslo, Norway on 12-15 June, 2013. I managed to catch up with him to interrupt his busy schedule for a brief interview ahead of his keynote at the EDEN 2013 Oslo Conference. The human brain is evolving faster than anything has, ever before.