Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning.

Marc has created over 50 software games for learning, including the world's first fast-action videogame-based training tools and world-wide, multi-player, multi-team on-line competitions. He has also taught at all levels. Marc has been featured in articles in The NY Times and The Wall Street Journal, has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and the BBC, and was named as one of training's top 10 "visionaries" by Training magazine. He holds graduate degrees from Yale (Teaching) and Harvard (MBA).

Marc Prensky is an education and learning-focused writer, speaker, consultant, and learning game designer who investigates the learning that takes place in computer and video games, and on how the engaging learning elements from those games can be applied to education in general.

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'Engage me, not enrage me' podcast

In this podcast, Marc talks about finding ways to get today's kids more involved in their schoolwork. The key, he says, is not curriculum, certification or testing, but engagement. The accompanying PowerPoint file is the presentation by Marc which you hear on the podcast.

PODCAST: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/images/mflePodcast14PrenskyEngageMe_tcm4-336085.m4a 

ACCOMPANYING POWERPOINT PRESENTATION:http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/images/Prensky0604Shrewsbury_tcm4-336765.ppt

For further information and contact details of Marc Prensky, feel free to visit any one his his sites:

Read Marc's WEBLOG .

Read Marc's WRITINGS. 

Engage Marc to SPEAK at an event, or to run a workshop.

Learn about Marc's companies:

 * GAMES2TRAIN. Builds learning games for business, education and the military.

 * THE DIGITAL MULTIPLIER. Dedicated to eliminating the digital divide in education worldwide.

See Marc's other Web Sites:

 * SOCIAL IMPACT GAMES. Games for health, education, politics, public policy and business.

 * DOD GAME COMMUNITY. Games created and/or used by the US Military

 * GAMES PARENTS TEACHERS. encouraging conversation between adults and kids about games