Note: Education Futures is on winter break and will return on January 7. 2007 has been a banner year for Education Futures, with expansions in the range of content and participation. First and foremost, I would like to thank the guest bloggers and other contributors that shared their thoughts and expertise this year: Cristóbal Cobo [...]

Education Futures contributor Brock Dubbels was interviewed in the National Education Association‘s October 2007 issue of NEA Today on the use of games in the classroom. Make sure to read the article, and bookmark Brock’s list of video game resources for educators! Also, click here to read Education Futures posts by Brock on games in [...]

Reader Arturo B. from Durango (Mexico) notes that Karen Littman posted an outstanding essay from 1992 in which she describes why she started Morphonix (creators of Neuromatrix, discussed in an earlier post): Even young children will become researchers as they discover and explore new information at their own pace. New technology is multisensory. It allows [...]

Brock Dubbels, a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota is joining Education Futures for the next week or so as a guest blogger. Brock brings nearly two decades of experience in education and instructional design, exploring new technologies for assessment, delivering content, creating engagement with learners, and investigating ways people [...]

Via the marvelous Web 2.0 technology of trackbacks, I saw that Cristobal Cobo posted a link back here, along with a truly fantastic video: View This Video on Google Read Cobo’s original post… or, for my quick-and-dirty translation of his thoughts from Spanish: “Building on the past” video by Justin Cone for the Moving Images [...]