{"id":39531,"date":"2013-04-30T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=39531"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:56:16","slug":"gamedesks-classroom-of-the-future-why-is-it-so-hard-to-reinvent-k-12-education-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/04\/30\/gamedesks-classroom-of-the-future-why-is-it-so-hard-to-reinvent-k-12-education-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamedesk\u2019s \u201cClassroom of the Future.\u201d Why is it so hard to reinvent K-12 education? [Holmes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/04\/29\/gamedesks-classroom-of-the-future-why-is-it-so-hard-to-reinvent-k-12-education\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gamedesk\u2019s \u201cClassroom of the Future.\u201d Why is it so hard to reinvent K-12 education? <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from pandodaily.com by David Holmes<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"acm-tag-single-post-sponsor\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0If we\u2019ve learned anything from this month\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/tag\/onlineeducation\/\" target=\"_blank\">series on ed-tech<\/a>\u00a0it\u2019s that changing centuries-old education traditions takes more than a touchscreen and good intentions. For all the exciting innovations put forth by the ed-tech movement, there remain fundamental challenges, including <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/04\/25\/why-online-education-is-mostly-a-fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to properly motivate students<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/01\/24\/education-startups-the-bottom-up-approach-doesnt-work-here\/\">how to navigate the internal politics of school districts<\/a>, and what to do when <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/04\/25\/heres-why-schools-are-wary-of-edtech-coursesmart-crashes-before-student-exams\/\">the technology crashes<\/a>.That\u2019s why I was eager to catch up with Lucien Vattel,\u00a0CEO and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedesk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamedesk<\/a>, an LA-based non-profit that is designing what it calls \u201cthe classroom of the future.\u201d &#8230;we quickly became believers in this brave new model of education based on imagination and play. (Who wouldn\u2019t?)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/04\/29\/gamedesks-classroom-of-the-future-why-is-it-so-hard-to-reinvent-k-12-education\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"classroommain\" src=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/classroommain.jpg?w=584&amp;h=438\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/04\/29\/gamedesks-classroom-of-the-future-why-is-it-so-hard-to-reinvent-k-12-education\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"aerogif\" src=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/aerogif1.gif?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamedesk\u2019s \u201cClassroom of the Future.\u201d Why is it so hard to reinvent K-12 education? &#8212; from pandodaily.com by David Holmes Excerpts: \u00a0If we\u2019ve learned anything from this month\u2019s series on ed-tech\u00a0it\u2019s that changing centuries-old education traditions takes more than a touchscreen and good intentions. For all the exciting innovations put forth by the ed-tech movement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,46,87,406,405,436],"tags":[739,587,4,615,764],"class_list":["post-39531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-learning-spaces","category-motivation","category-play","category-reinvent","tag-education-reform","tag-future","tag-k-12","tag-learning-spaces","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39536,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39531\/revisions\/39536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}