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NCTIES 2013 Post Analysis

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     NCTIES 2013 is North Carolina Technology in Education Society's 's state conference, THE annual state conference, March 6-8, for those focused on making NC's schools digitally and 21st century relevant, which included my humble offering on Composing Digital Games . How long before state and national educational "technology" organizations recognize that the issue is not about technology but about what we do with it? Can we replace the noun technology with better goal focused titles than this seeming focus on mere equipment? How about Literacy, Discovery or Learning? What about verbs, e.g., Solving, Thinking?  What did fill the halls and rooms of the conference though was an intense and motivated interest in the presentations at hand, with many filled to overflowing.      David Warlick did a fine pre-conference analysis of the last two years of NCTIES presentation topics that also showed changing trends. Post-conference, after seeing many of them, I anal