5 alternative ways to measure the impact of EdTech innovation?

Many education systems around the world (Ireland included) continue to be enthralled to high stakes exams as a means of assessing students.  We still tend to value what we measure, rather than measuring what we really value.  As a result,…

Game-based Learning for Early Childhood (Part 2)

by Neil Peirce PhD In the first part of this 2-part blog post I highlighted the growing market for early childhood games and some of the emerging best-practices for designing such games. In this post I continue by looking at the evidence…

Game-based Learning for Early Childhood (Part 1)

by Neil Peirce PhD The increasing pervasiveness of computers and mobile digital devices within homes, has opened a new market for game-based learning, that of educational games for early childhood. A survey of the Apple App Store conducted…