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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! But for all the advances in technology, for all the policy initiatives that have washed through, schools still seem to work in more or less the same ways as they did in 2007—or 1997, or 1987.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. Yet Seymour also felt that some of his ideas have been misconstrued and misapplied.

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The Complete Cognitive Science Behind Brainscape

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When you don't know exactly what "likes", "retweets", or "achievements" you might unlock, you feel increasingly compelled to keep posting, scrolling, or playing in search of that next unexpected reward, thus resulting in higher levels of dopamine (Zald et al 2004). 1=red, 2=orange, 3=yellow, 4=green, 5=blue.)

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