Tag: Millenials
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In through the back door
Thanks to my colleague Kim for this: Elementary teachers are leading the way with integration (perhaps because they have more flexibility in terms of curriculum) in the classroom and teachers in general are improving their use, granted via administrivia.
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How deep can you cut a record groove?
One of the things that was evident going through my Masters degree what that for every story out there that said that technology is great, there was another that said it was not. Nothing new there, but neither side really had much in the way of evidence to support it’s argument other than anecdotes (which…
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Game Learning Resource URLs
While looking up references I found Mark Prensky’s selected Game based training URLs and this new blog (Waran’s Blog) that quote Sarah Fister from Training Magazine (1999 I think?). How are the current generation of students different: They are far more experience at processing information quickly than its predecessors and is therefore better at it.…
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TV Bad!
Committed Sardine has found another TV related article – this time saying that TV is bad if over 2h/d. I’m thinking, that if a child is watching more than 2h a day while growing up, the time in front of the tube is not being spent in sports and other activities that aid in achievement.…
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From the “really?” department – TV is good and bad for tots
The Committed Sardine posted a comment on this Seattle Times article about TV and younger kids. It seems that this is one of those case studies I looked at in my Masters courses – media is seen to be good and bad, biased and unbiased … . More recently it’s been games that are the…