Tag: Learning
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Innovate Online – Accelerating Games
Jones and Kalinowski in their new article in Innovate Online suggest that as games today are having trouble penetrating the classroom because they can’t in many cases fit the explicit needs of the curriculum without modification or addition. To this end, they are proposing a community form to share learning objects that would help align…
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Confessions of a Digital Native
I may be old for some to consider me a native, but I think I qualify by the way that I work with technology and the fact that I’ve had some manner of computer around since before I started school – be it a friend’s Coleco or our own Commadore 64. But anyway, on with…
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Get Writing – Updated
If you are wondering why free form writing, like blogging is important – take a look at this Express News posting. Blogger has been having issues of late…
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Hard Fun
I’m getting ready for a lecture that I’m giving tomorrow and Thursday to a class that deals with the psychology of technology (in the Faculty of Education – so it’s Ed Psych) and one of the points that I had come up with to help legitimize game based learning is Papert’s “Hard Fun” (2002). There…
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ELearn 2005 – Transfer is king
“Never Worry about Transfer Again–Six Strategies for Converging Learning & Work” was Allison Rossett’s keynote this morning. It was interesting because even though it was talking about strategies, it really concentrated tools that can help ensure knowledge transfer. Generally, if I got the idea of the presentation, what she was saying was that in order…