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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

” He cited Portal 2, one of the games in Valve’s portfolio, as breaking the mold of a traditional game model by eschewing the conventional collection of monsters or weapons and positioning itself instead as a game about physics and problem-solving. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). The conversation touched on various dimensions of the data-collection issue: The challenge of cultural assumptions embedded in standard health surveys (what is "jogging", exactly? OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

Have Fun - Do Good

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. Around three years ago, my fellow collaborator, Josh MacPhee, reached out to me, and he had this awesome idea.

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