Category: Social Creatures
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The Digital Socrate
The Socratic method uses questions to examine the values, principles, and beliefs of students. The Socratic method focuses on moral education, on how one ought to live. The Socratic method demands a classroom environment characterized by “productive discomfort.” The Socratic method is better used to demonstrate complexity, difficulty, and uncertainty than at eliciting facts about…
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Spock, what is your analysis
One of the IIP students on my team was wondering about a way that you could search through your friends by how they have turned out – essentially seeing who is now a teacher, lawyer etc. So this morning, I came across Spock, a search engine that seems to be able to do just that.…
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Mickey gets another friend
Well, yesterday was a holiday, so I missed this, but it seems that Disney has noticed that for all it’s branding, it’s own social networking sites are really not flying that high. The solution – like many others have done in the past – is to buy something that is working (GN). This thing is…
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Lord of the MMORPGs
This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for a while, and if you look at it’s number, you’ll see that it has been a while since I got the idea and even with that said, I’ve been wanting to write so much about it that I’ve forgotten the original ideas, but I…
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Why Game
A couple weeks ago at the CeC, Chris Melissinos – Sun Microsystems’ CTO of Web 2.0 and Chief Gaming Officer and a self-proclaimed video game addict – gave quite the keynote and while I dutifully took notes in a linear fashion and while, I would have normally provided those notes straight, with a week having…