I was invited to visit Buni, an innovation hub in Dar Es Salaam. This is an open office for young innovators and entrepreneurs. The facilities include a meeting room, training room, computers, and a maker space. The smart houses in the video are part of a recent project which aimed to encourage young women to […]
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The Global Learning Xprize challenge is to develop an Open Source solution to teach 7 – 10 year old children basic literacy and numeracy. Android tablets will be distributed to remote villages in East Africa with pre-loaded educational content. Pre and post tests after 18 months will identify which team’s approach is the most successful.
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I am about to get on a plane and leave Johannesburg. Within a short time, this city has left an impact on me like no other city I have ever visited. It felt like visiting a movie set of ghosts and stories I have heard about before. Authors like Wilbur Smith and Bryce Courtney have
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My Perth stop over, as part of my NSW Premiership scholarship study tour, was an ideal opportunity to drop in to the Moodle HQ offices and meet Martin Dougiamas and the Moodle HQ – headquarters – team. The very sleek new office has room for three times the current number of staff, which is a
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The next series of blog posts are part of a study tour to South and East Africa in January and February 2016 sponsored by TAFE NSW as part of the NSW Premier Teacher Scholarship “This work was produced by Natalie Denmeade, a recipient of a TAFE NSW scholarship 2016, awarded by The Premier of NSW”.
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‘NGA’s gamification software provides a customizable Web interface for displaying badges and a configurable rules engine that translates actions performed by users into awards, said Ray Bauer, an NGA information technology innovation lead.’ Gamification-server provides a framework for providing awards/points to users or teams and can be operated either standalone or integrated with other web-based
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On first impressions, this looks very thorough and well planned. It seems to cater for mid – difficult in ease of use. The documentation on SDKs and APIs indicates will be customisable to meet a wide range of client needs. I created a simple to-do list and found the interface design elegantly simple. Home page
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This mini-mooc introduced eLearning skills through a series of lectures and activities. Natalie was asked to add some gamification strategies and implemented two simple techniques: 1) A simple progress bar – to indicate progression through seven stages. 2) Jellybean treasure hunt – a small jellybean was a link to quick quiz questions to repeat key
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See slide 156 of this presentation by Yukai Chou for the original version of this brilliant vision of the not-so distant future of education: “How educators will likely become facilitators and cheerleaders instead of teachers in a world where students can get more information than what the educator knows faster than she can say it,
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This blog post is a reflection on my (current) definition of the terms: Education, Learning, Play and Gamification. Personally I believe that we all can learn for our entire lives, however the extent of resources (including time) and role-models available usually limits what we can learn, and what we want to learn. At some point
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