Cyberlearning Research Summit - 2 views
Cyberlearning Research Summit Check out this Cyberlearning Summit: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/w/index.php/Main_Page Program: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/w/index.php/Cyberlearning:Janu...
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Get With the Computer Program - 2 views
Why Johnny Can't Program - 1 views
Why Johnny can't program -- and how that can change Today's schools are actually turning kids away from computer science, and it will take innovative programs to reverse the trend By Neil McAll...
Playing with Reality at the Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 22 Jun 11June 21, 2011, 8:00 am By Prof. Hacker Lewis Carroll's logic game[This is a guest post by Anastasia Salter, Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore in the school of Information Arts and Technologies. Her academic work focuses on storytelling in new media; she also writes the Future Fragments column for CinCity. Follow her on Twitter at AnaSalter.--@jbj] "...With that said, perhaps the most important takeaway from LEEF is that it's not all about expensive toys. Learning games don't have to be hi-tech to be effective. There's a lot to be learned from Space Vikings, the conference's ARG-that's alternate reality game, not its augmented reality cousin. Unlike augmented reality, which requires technology to mediate an environment, alternate reality is a playful imposition of story onto a physical space. In Space Vikings, a number of us dedicated conference attendees were drawn into a mission to save our tribes from a "pedagogical wasteland." How did we accomplish this feat? By hunting down "anomalies"-read masking tape clues, QR codes and posters-with answers to questions to submit in a digital educational games theory scavenger hunt. This is just one example of a conference ARG, and designers were at LEEF to report on lessons learned from others like DevLearn's Zombie Apocalypse. (For more ideas on educational uses of Alternate Reality, check out Think Transmedia.) These same ideas can scale and transform to a number of settings. For example, Melissa Peterson's Elmwood Park Zoo ARG is currently a project conducted with paper (though imagined for smartphones), and it's already doubling the engagement time of visitors to the local zoo. And on the other side, games like the Giskin Anomaly in Balboa Park are adding new layers of narrative to a popular and culturally rich tourist destination. And these games don't have to be location dependent. Case studies like the Radford Outdoor ARG Outbreak, a social inquiry game that puts st
Struggling with information overload - 1 views
Struggling with information overload Monday, August 1st, 2011 | Article http://www.larrysworld.com/2011/08/01/struggling-with-information-overload/ by Larry Magid This arti...
Teacher Survey Shows Morale Is at a Low Point - 1 views
By FERNANDA SANTOS Published: March 7, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/education/teacher-morale-sinks-survey-results-show.html?ref=education The slump in the economy, c...
National Museum of the American Indian Hosts Inka Road Satellite Chats - 1 views
National Museum of the American Indian Hosts Inka Road Satellite Chats PR Newswire - Tue, Jul 5, 2011 tweet3 Email Print To: NATIONAL EDITORS WASHINGTON, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Th...
Getting more A's in school! ( From Storify- Dr. Thomas Ho) - 2 views
In a previous post, I outlined how we could harness social media for learning in order to: assess account for professional development advocate in order to promote our schools. I rec...
The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics - 1 views
Alice E. Marwick Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England; Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society danah boyd Microsoft Research; New York University (NYU) - Dep...
SmartPhone - Dumb School - 1 views
SmartPhone - Dumb School Peter Pappas » 26 May 2011 » In Commentary, Social Web, Web 2.0 » http://www.peterpappas.com/2011/05/smartphone-dumb-school-education-web-mobile-context.html This w...
Report: Social networking sites and our lives Pew Charitable Trust - 2 views
Report: Social networking sites and our lives Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do thes...
Broadening Engagement in SC the Conference Application - 1 views
Broader Engagement Program Apply now for a BE grant. Goals of the Program The goal of the Broader Engagement (BE) Program is to increase the participation of individuals who have been traditional...
Content is the New Currency - 1 views
Home Headlines http://benton.org/node/94354 Content Is The New Currency Submitted: October 20, 2011 - 7:37pm Originally published: October 20, 2011 Last updated: October 20, 2011 - 7:40pm ...
The New Academic Publishing: Digital First - 2 views
The New Academic Publishing: Digital First http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/the-new-academic-publishing-digital-first/ Filed in: Schools Filed by Sarah J. 7.11.11 | A growing grou...
NCLB - 1 views
The US Dept of Education put out a video called "A Teacher's Guide to Fixing No Child Left Behind" and we have a chance to share our feedback about both NCLB reform and the video at the attached li...
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