Tag: Social Learning
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Ideas – The Strangeness of Science, Quirks and Quarks
Anyone interested in Science should listen to this from Dawkins. At about 43 minutes he talks about computer games as a way of potentially helping us change the way that we think about existence and later about how or why we personify our computers. This is a great companion to the Quirks and Quarks show…
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eLearn 2006 – Monday
Cool papers: A study on the collaborative learning cellular phones at the elementary schools (Tashiro) Miyagi University, Japan Digital Storytelling: Self-Efficacy and Digital Literacy (Li, Morehead) Oakland University Mobile Learning: A Review of Implementations (Barneveld, Shaw) Concordia University The Educational Implications of Synchronous and Asynchronous Peer- Tutoring in Video Games (Moshirnia) University of Kansas Quick…
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More COTS research
This is stolen from Silversprite and the GU Gamesblog who dug up two interesting articles. The first is one that I found yesterday as well when I was chatting with my niece in England over MSN looking for any games that UNICEF might have available to help people understand it’s work (like Food Force). The…
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Recess threatened?
Cog Daily has an article on how recess is becoming structured and as often as not cut out completely. Even though it’s not talking about gaming like I’ve written about, it still talking about the importance of unstructured play. If you look at how kids learn many of the tools that they use in their…
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SITE 2006 Keynote – Michelle Selinger
Well, this is before the keynote and the main conference hall is certainly impressive and thankfully I cam prepared for the wonders of climate control. It’s a fridge inside and a sauna outside – so I think I’ll be in pants and shoes during the day at least. I’m also looking around and it’s really…