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Bradford Saron

Alan Gershenfeld: Game-Based Learning: Hype Vs. Reality - 0 views

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shared by Bradford Saron on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Project-based learning: Games are interactive, "lean-forward," and participatory. They enable players to step into different roles (e.g. scientist, explorer, inventor, political leader), confront a problem, make meaningful choices and explore the consequences of these choices. Games can help make learning more engaging, relevant and give students real agency in ways that static textbooks simply cannot.
  • Personalized learning: Games are designed to enable players to advance at their own pace, fail in a safe and supportive environment, acquire critical knowledge just-in-time (vs. just-in-case), iterate based on feedback and use this knowledge to develop mastery. Games can help teachers manage large classes with widely divergent student capabilities and learning styles through embedded assessment and individualized, adaptive feedback.
  • 24/7 learning: Games offer a delicate mix of challenges, rewards and goals that drive motivation, time-on-task and a level of engagement that can seamlessly cross from formal to informal learning environments. Given that kids spend more time engaged with digital media than any other activity (other than sleep), games can enable an increasing portion of this out-of-school digital media time to effectively reinforce in-school learning (and vice-versa).
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  • Peer-to-peer learning: Games are increasingly social. Whether they involve guilds or teams jointly accomplishing missions, asynchronous collaboration over social networks or sourcing advice from interest-driven communities to help solve tricky challenges, games naturally drive peer-to-peer and peer-to-mentor social interactions.
  • 21st Century skill development: Games are complex. Whether it is a 5-year-old parsing a Pokemon card or a 15-year-old optimizing a city in SimCity, games can foster critical skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, systems thinking, digital media literacy, creativity and collaboration. Given that many of the jobs that will emerge in 21st century have not yet been invented, these 'portable' skills are particularly important.
  • Bradford Saron on 13 May 11
     
    Although some of the stats may be uncharacteristic of most of Wisconsin, this seems well presented-especially the bold points of strength for gaming. 
Bradford Saron

Four Hopeful Questions for the Future of Learning - 0 views

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shared by Bradford Saron on 28 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • 1. What if… a community received quarterly dashboard updates correlating the number of community mentoring hours, internships or even online parental homework assistance with critical student success factors such as student attendance, school climate and academic performance?
  • 2. What if… doing something that is good for you, such as enrolling in a spinning class, could offset the electricity costs for schools?
  • 3. What if… we replaced conventional currencies with other value exchanges that made it possible for parents and community members to contribute subject matter expertise or other resources to schools in exchange for extended hour care for their children or use of school facilities?
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  • 4. What if …the more than 55 million K-12 students currently in the US were considered viable partners to crowdsource answers and opportunities to challenges we face?
  • Bradford Saron on 28 Mar 11
     
    Utilizing technology to communicate better, putting energy onto the grid, and crowdsourcing! 
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