Alice Bonasio
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Alice Bonasio is a writer and communications consultant who has worked in the creative industries, technology and publishing sectors for over a decade. She has written extensively on gaming, social media, popular culture, science, education technology, feminism, and Virtual Reality. Her work has been published in Wired, FastCo, The Next Web, Newsweek, and The Huffington Post, among others.
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Can coding boot camps fix Silicon Valley’s gender equality problem?
Science isn’t a sport where men can run faster than women, but we need solutions to help women enter the race.
Is Minecraft the future of education?
Pedagogical gamification provides insight into a fundamental mindset shift that educators and learners must embrace to thrive in the digital age.
Using data management to build personalized learning experiences
Microsoft’s latest acquisition shows how combining pedagogy and technology can dramatically improve learning outcomes.
How a grassroots approach can tackle the digital skills gap
The problem of equipping the next generation with the skills to have a healthy and productive relationship with technology seems a daunting one for many educators. Yet successful initiatives show how a community-level approach can...
Empowering educators to create immersive learning experiences
Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students.
Scaling EdTech to reach the next billion learners
How do we tackle the challenge of making educational technology that works for everyone?
Immersive learning transforming education
Mixed Reality is increasingly being used to teach the creative and collaborative skills needed for the digital age.
How doing good can help CIOs do better
Bridging the digital skills gap, addressing the diversity problem in technology, and making the world a better place. It’s all good business.
How technology is helping education reach refugee children
The world’s first satellite-enabled interactive distance learning project is beaming lessons into a Ghana Refugee Camp.
Making us all into makers
Technology startups have been exploring in order to address the increasingly pressing issue of the widening digital skills gap. One company works with schools to get pupils to build their own fully functional classroom laptops,...
Augmented education isn’t just for children
No shortage of great content is emerging in the augmented reality (AR) space aimed at children yet the way in which the technology engages and enhances the learning process is not something that we grow out of. Visual, interactive and...