Latest posts by Jake New (see all)

Gaming in education: ‘We don’t need no stinking badges’

Educators and game designers say gamification is not about adding games to classes, but designing classes as games Washington, D.C.– ... Read more

Here’s proof that adaptive learning works

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Sandra Connelly, an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said when she teaches a general biology course, she's always struck by how varied her students are.…

10 most wired college campuses

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On average, college campuses have just one computer for every seven students, according to U.S. News and World Report. Other sources put that number at more than 10…

Students can now skip the line without being a jerk

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Everybody hates waiting in line, but nobody likes a line skipper. Thanks to a new partnership between Blackboard and Qless, students will be able to skip lines without…

5 ways mobile devices have (and haven’t) changed studying

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College students now own an average of seven mobile devices, and spend nearly four hours a day interacting with their laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The bandwidth needs…

What Google won’t do anymore

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Google will no longer scan student and faculty eMails for advertising keywords, the company announced this week. The change comes on the heels of a lawsuit in California…

Ed-tech highlights from the ASU-GSV Summit

Couldn’t make it to the ASU-GSV Education Innovation Summit this week? Hey, neither could we–but we’ve still got you covered. Now in its fifth year, the summit brings…

‘Untangling the knots’ of educational technology

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Educators share ‘hacks’ to improving higher education, using technology to help students learn Hal Plotkin, the senior policy adviser to ... Read more

Robots do tai chi, more at STEM event

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Thousands of educators, professionals and business leaders gathered in Washington D.C. for the U.S. News STEM Solutions conference last week. ... Read more

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