Some nice history, explanation and figures in this infographic: “The Gamification of Education”. 
Created by Knewton and Column Five Media
More Learning without Frontiers 2012 keynotes (#lwf12) 3/3
Sir Ken Robinson (@sirkenrobinson) – Leading a Learning Revolution
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More Learning without Frontiers 2012 keynotes (#lwf12) 2/3
Mitch Resnick – Learning from Scratch
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDPssJedOJ4[/youtube]
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Overview of the publicly available Learning without Frontiers 2012 keynotes
Conrad Wolfram (@conradwolfram) – Making Maths Beautiful
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWKyFg9IdM[/youtube]
“Express your ideas with the world” – Mitchel Resnick (#LWF12)
“The greatest invention was the invention of kindergarten”, according to Mitchel Resnick (@mres) teaching and life should be more like Kindergarden. In kindergarden the circle approach to learning is common practice. Imagine, create, play, share, reflect and start imagining again.
The Kindergarten approach to learning, by Mitchel Resnik
4 trends by Jesse Schell (#LWF12)
Jesse Schell shared 4 key trends with us which are affecting the way we live and which will change the way we teach. Jesse performed at his best with an inspiring talk full of humour.
The 4 trends he defined and choose to make his point where:
TREND 1: Beautiful
Everything is getting more beautiful. More and more objects in our live are designed not just for function but also more estetical. From builings, phones and even our toothbrushes.
Education Technology Start Up Pitches (#LWF12)
On a side event hosted by Startup Weekend London (thanks Ed!) during Learning without Frontiers we saw 10 education technology start-up pitching in front of a jury and enthusiastic crowd – or at least enthusiastic enough to bare the heat 
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The winner of this competition was Night Zoo Keeper. Congrats!
Here’s a short overview of the 10 companies (in order of appearance)
Short recap in quotes from day one (#LWF12)
We’ve heard some great quotes today at Learning without Frontiers 2012. One that sums us the message’s of today: “Technology is subservient to the Student” by Jaron Laniers, a very creative mind and author of the book “You are not a Gadget”. This was the underlying message in many of the talks. Put people in the centre of education, not technology. An obvious conclusion maybe, but it’s not being said without reason!
First thougths on keynote by Ray Kurzweil (#LWF12)
With the keynote of Ray Kurzwell fresh in our mind: what do you think?
Personally I’ve heard the story about singularity, exponential growth, development in gene technology, it etc. before. Mainly by Yuri van Geest, a Singularity University alumni of which Ray Kurzweil is one of the founders. Yuri presents this case with much more excitement. But Ray’s point, of peoples brain not being able to grasp the implication of exponential growth is proven by the conference organizers (there are not alone in this) not being able to predict the required wifi capacity.
Welcome to this new blog about the future of education
Welcome today to the launch of this new blog. This launch date is chosen because today is the start of the Learning Without Frontiers Conference 2012 in London. Why? Because it’s about the same topic: the future of learning.
We believe in the use of new technology to make education more accessible, more affordable and most importantly: much better!
How?