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  • One Last Lecture

    From the description : Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their…

  • 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…

  • Casual Gaming, Casual Learning

    This is a topic that came up over the weekend at a BBQ, when my brother was asking about HDMI, thinking about the XBox 360 Elite and Halo 3 being almost on us here. As the conversation moved along, it followed much the same path that Ed’s post on gaming had – who has time…

  • Reflecting on Reflections

    Paul over at Research Quest has a great series of posts reflecting on the presentation by Jenkins at the Games, Learning, and Libraries Symposium pointed out a number of elements that are important for our students to keep abreast of the world the way that information is moving and changing with each new technology that…

  • Why kids are so good with … whatever…

    This is just a quick posting before I try to get one together this afternoon about MMORPGs. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some time to spend with my youngest brother, my cousin and some of our mutual friends who are about his age and one thing really jumped out at me. It’s…