It's Friday the 13th of March ....Happy Digital Learning Day!
If you are interested in learning about the many activities taking place today, and want to experience some of them live and online, you can go to the Digital Learning Day 2015 page.
If you can only do one thing today, take a look at the OCTAE blog that celebrates digital learning. There you will find some useful information and -- from my perspective -- this very exciting news:
Keep an eye on the horizon for two challenges to be launched by OCTAE. The Reach Higher Career App Challenge seeks to spur innovation in career exploration by empowering students with individualized career and education information at their fingertips. The EdSim Challenge will encourage developers of cutting edge 3D simulations and games to develop the next generation of immersive, interoperable, open platform simulations. More details will be provided soon.
It sounds like OCTAE will be launching a competition, what some call a "Challenge," "Grand Challenge" or "prize competition" to spur development of innovation, in this case for new apps for career exploration and new serious games/education simulations. This could be exciting!
If you are interested in digital learning activities, here's a link to a whole page of free digital curriculum resources I put together.
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com