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Tag: Media literacy

  • Growing up Gaming

    Let’s start with this: There is an interesting message here, there are likely many people out there who think like this – people for whom the ideas from the Matrix are not really that far fetched. But the take home message is that we have come to a point that games have matured to a…

  • Multiple Literacies

    It’s one of the rallying cries that many digitally oriented educators use when it comes to using this piece of software or the other – it allows students to explore literacies that are not accessible in traditional text or are now inconvenient (due to space, time or money) to explore like art and music. One…

  • Ideas of surveillance

    +++This post started out on my phone and has been trapped in the back end of my database for the weekend – I’ll come back to it when I have time+++ Friday, I took in this really interesting lecture by Meyrowitz, as well as a small panel afterward, who talked about how reality and it’s…

  • Snap Preview Anywhere – good for Schools

    If you are running a school related blog, then I think you should be using Snap. If for no other reason than it allows students to see content before they click and in a way it can be used to help promote media literacy and show that what a link says may not be where…

  • Video Games Live Redux – Preshow

    Well, I got my tickets yesterday for Video Games Live that has it’s second Canadian stop in Edmonton next week. As run up to this, The Escapist has a story on it as well (edit – so does the local See Magazine). If you are anywhere close to one of the concert locations, I think…