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Please take our SURVEY and tell us what you think! This is your community. Does it serve your needs? What else would you like to see? The Cooney Center is pleased to introduce our new Website, designed to engage a growing community in understanding the research, learning innovations and industry trends that matter most for children and families in a digital age. New features include: Cooney Center Blog: get insights on the latest industry trends, research findings, and conference roundups.…

May 2010: This year’s San Francisco Game Developers Conference, the largest annual game developers conference in the world, was marked by a notable focus on player-centered and social game play experiences. These trends began gaining momentum in years’ past, but with the breakthrough success of games such as Farmville on social networks like Facebook, the emphasis on player-centered design and social game play rang loud and clear in 2010. Game makers are tapping into the wealth of content and behaviors…

This post originally appeared on the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age blog.   “Grit” is required for success today in the United States. “Grit” is passion plus persistence. Jobs that require basic or even higher, but standard, skills will often be low paying, done overseas, or automated. Success will more and more require high-level mastery and the ability to innovate. And that, in turn, requires grit. There are no short cuts. There is no persistence without passion. How do…