Category: Learning
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Journey and not the destination
Adam Savage “plays a scientist on TV”, and regardless of what you may think about Mythbusters as a show and what you might think about their science/methods, you have to admit that he does a great job getting kids and people in general thinking about problem solving and general science geekery. So even before watching…
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Another run at Bloom
A couple of years ago, I did a quick post on Bloom’s taxonomy and how it might be updated. The Bloom 2.0 that is mentioned there has been prettied up and rehashed here. The revisit offers up some solid options as to how one might go about implementing the use of this updated taxonomy in…
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The power of the token economy
I’m sure you’ve seen one of those posters quoting ” – everything you need to know you likely learned in kindergarden – ” One of those things is that part of the world works because you have enough coins/stars/stickers. These are part of the token economy that is present in elementary school classrooms. Kids earn…
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Should we hurry our infants?
Much of my interest in games and learning came from my youth playing games as seeing that there were potentially a really effective tool to deliver content. Though at the time I was playing those games, I wasn’t thinking about teaching and learning. I only saw how playing games about an age or time helped…
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The Role of Play in Learning with Technology – an ELI Webinar
Through some interruptions, I was able to take in most of the recent ELI webinar (Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Barbara Draude presenting) on play, and in classic conference style, the best parts that I took away were from the back/side channel with the main event providing the fuel/fodder. The presentation very rightly started by pointing out…