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What is going on at FAS Learning Tech?

Here are a few places where you can hear Melanie Stegman speaking about Immune Attack2 development, how to use Immune Attack in a classroom and how learning games (should optimally) get made.  Melanie is also very interested in getting feedback from teachers, so if you are at any other these events,

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Are you a teacher? Have you used Immune Attack?

Online Surveys – Zoomerang.com

Please vote just once. Thank you very much for your help. Having some data to report is vital to our mission!

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Another thoughtful blog post about the Supreme Court decision

http://kotaku.com/5815846/the-supreme-courts-best-arguments-for-and-against-violent-video-games?utm_source=Kotaku+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3d6360a33-UA-142218-8&utm_medium=email#viewcomments

This post excerpted what the author felt were the most compelling parts of the arguments on both sides.

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Supreme Court protects video games same as books and plays

Here is the press release from the Entertainment Software Association and the ESRB:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 27, 2011

ESA Welcomes Sweeping U.S. Supreme Court

Ruling on Constitutional Protections for Video Games

Landmark Ruling Hailed as a Win for First Amendment and Artists

June 27,

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New science teacher academy NYC

http://www.nsta.org/academy/2011/FellowApplication.aspx

If you are a new science teacher, you can apply to the New York Academy of Science for a summer academy designed just for you.

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Teachers role in a high tech classroom

Everyone seems to have an opinion about teacher’s role in the classroom of the future.  Some claim that teachers should get out of the way and let kids simply have unfettered access to the internet.  Others imagine a classroom in which teachers curate the vast world of information that is available and facilitate students’

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Growing the Video Game Industry in the US

Congressional Caucus for Competitiveness in Entertainment Technology, or E-Tech was formed in February by U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kevin Brady.  You can read about the Caucus and see which members of the House have joined it on the Video Game Voters Network.  You can watch Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz speak on Technology and Education HERE at the Atlantic Forum on Technology in Education.

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March Learning Tech Newsletter. Educational Molecules for Fun

We need you
Are you a teacher with access to PC computers?  Test IA in your classroom!  We spent 2010 developing an excellent test of learning and attitudes toward molecular biology.  Now we need students in 7th – 12th grades to play IA1.0 for 2 class periods and and then take our survey. 

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IGDA Newsletter Feature: Positive Impact Gaming

If you are a game developer, you have probably heard of the International Game Developer’s Association (IDGA). If you are a student who is interested in a career in gaming, if you make games as a hobby, or if you are a teacher/professor with students who are interested in game development you can find/recommend the local IDGA chapter and go there for camaraderie,

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2011 is the Year of Chemistry

www.moleclues.org is a website where you can learn about the things molecules do… like make us fall in love, for instance.

The people behind Moleclues and the Year of Chemistry are The Molecular Frontiers Foundation.

Moleclues wants you to know that 2011 is the international YEAR OF CHEMISTRY! 

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