Justin Medved , the Director of Instructional Innovation at The York School, likes to talk about “layers of learning” taking place in the best games. “To what extent does the game offer an experience that offers some critical thinking, decision making, complexity, or opportunity for discussion and debate?” says Medved. The content is the first layer the students interact with, but meta-content skills can take longer to teach. Medved looks for “any opportunity for players to go out and do some research and thinking before coming back to the game.” Many games, says Medved, are super-fast and he tries to intentionally slow them down to allow for deeper thinking. “We want some level of learning to be slow, to discuss bias or different perspectives. Over time you can see a narrative unfolding.”
sandygibson on 11 Dec 13Here's a website I'm using to send French Vocab videos home to parents. It's pretty much like Youtube for teachers since it doesn't have ads or inappropriate videos that pop up on the side. I haven't had too many problems with it, though there was one time when I couldn't get the video to display even though the audio was fine.
Lisa Picerno on 24 Jan 14Great!
