A year of Corona has led me to think deeply about joyful learning experiences. In 2019, the Innovating Pedagogy report highlighted ‘Playful Learning’ among its ten showcased trends: There are many advantages to play in learning, both for … Read more
In August 2019, Mozilla announced that it is retiring its Open Badges Backpack platform and moving all user accounts to Badgr, a platform created by the company Concentric Sky (CSky). CSky was the lead author of the Open … Read more
Since fall 2014, mobile devices officially outnumber people on the planet. With the ubiquitous access to mobile technologies, social media has become a global phenomenon. According to the data portal Statista, the power of social networking is such … Read more
Are you curious who is behind AACE Review or interested in doing a social media internship with AACE? As we complete our first year of the AACE Review magazine, we asked each of the regular writers to reflect … Read more
Hour of Code held between December 3 – 9 is a global invitation reaching out to anyone and everyone. You are invited to spend an hour exploring the language of computer code. If you have never written code … Read more
Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more
On 20th July 2018, kids all over the world participated in Moonhack, a space-themed event to get kids coding. When I first wrote about Moonhack 2018 it was a month before launch and the anticipation was building like … Read more
Popular and free, the block-based code platform Scratch was originally launched in 2007, by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media Lab. Scratch rapidly grew an online community on its platform for games, animations and storytelling, primarily aimed … Read more
Today marks the end of this year’s AACE Edmedia conference in Amsterdam – and what a week it was! 700 participants, a new format with country best paper awards, 5 keynotes, an invited speaker panel with 4 distinguished … Read more
The term open educational resources (OER) was coined in 2002 during a forum held by the UNESCO as the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community … Read more