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JVIB 2012 Special Issue on Technology: Today's Game Changer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm very excited to be a guest editor with the awesome Donna McNear on next year's special technology issue of the Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness.

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Gaming for Sustainability: How Balaji Prabhakar’s Lottery Beats Traffic Congestion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Imagine someone offered you $1 to leave the house an hour earlier in the morning so as to shift your commute to an off-peak train. Will you do it? If you’re like most people, you will say no. Now imagine you’d be offered a 1-in-100 chance of winning $100. You might find this offer much more enticing.

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Total Engagement

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Millions of people pay each month to participate in massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). They punch a bunch of psychological tickets for humans: the game designers know what they're doing. I've tried them, and I have friends (and kids) that have been totally sucked into them.

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Braille Silver Dollars

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I've been using a Morgan silver dollar from the 19th century when I referee soccer games each fall: this September I plan to surprise the kids with a Braille silver dollar! Mint strike and sell these Louis Braille Silver Dollars , and some of the money goes to supporting Braille literacy.

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Bookshare User Sends Haiku

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Born in the early 17 th century, Haiku as a literary form was a product of the game Renga in which poets wrote alternating stanzas to create poems with sound unit counts known as "on." I did not start to write poetry until my late thirties, though, when, finally, all the bottled up emotions began to emerge.

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National Family Literacy Day

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So, put down the remote control -- and shut down the game consoles and set aside a few moments to read with a family member, a friend, a student -- or just by yourself. And, we want to make sure every kid has equal access to the joys of reading! Then please share your experience on Bookshare's Facebook page.

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Social Simulators

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

is an online role playing game, called Reachout Central. is an organization that serves at-risk youth, and ROC is a way of allowing youth to play an on-line game that helps illustrate social interactions. It's an early prototype, but I could see the potential of this approach to teaching social skills for job readiness.

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