College Offers 45 Scholarships for Video Gaming
NPR
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6/23/14
“In addition to the scholarships, which are worth about $19,000 each, the school will also be looking to hire a video game coach... The move marks yet another step in the mainstreaming of video games, which in this context are also called e-sports, within education. There's already a Collegiate Star League dedicated to video gaming, with teams at 100 universities including MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.”
The Challenge of Teaching WWI (and History) in Modern Times
LA Times
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6/21/14
“I doubt that understanding the Great War will help young people "compete in the global economy." In fact, insight into that war's causes might lead kids to rethink entirely international competition as an educational goal. Yet I believe that wrestling with that war's complexity will make for better citizens: thoughtful, cautious about letting a president take us to war, concerned with the "collateral damage" inherent to modern conflict, and able to consign Nazis to their proper historical place.”
Coding: The Best Article Yet on Computational Thinking in Schools
Mother Jones
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6/1/14
"It was little more than a century ago that literacy became universal in Western Europe and the United States. If computational skills are on the same trajectory, how much are we hurting our economy—and our democracy—by not moving faster to make them universal?”