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Blair Peterson

Why the Internet Isn't Making Us Stupid - TIME - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • so you can build this social newspaper that you're the editor of. You get to decide what you see and what you don't see. And you get to interact with people in a different way. Imagine if you could interact with the stories in The New York Times in a social context?
  • That consumers aren't coming back. They're looking for these new digital experiences in every single type of thing they consume — whether it's the clothes that they wear, the cars that they buy, the newspaper that they read.
  • it's just that the traditions we've had in the past are different now.
  • Blair Peterson on 08 Oct 10
     
    Interview with Nick Bilton who wrote the book "I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works". 
Blair Peterson

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • new methods to measure skills like critical thinking, creativity, and persistence.
  • "A lot of important stuff happens when playing games," Ms. Shute said. "You're just doing. You're in the process."
  • "Wouldn't it be lovely to actually pass along the log files of what students did in order to look at their scientific-inquiry skills?"
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  • She looks first to the core competencies—critical thinking, empathy, persistence—that she wants to test, then breaks them down into smaller goals
  • student's grasp of systems thinking—understanding the complex relationships among parts of a whole—might ask players to complete tasks that show information gathering, developing hypotheses, and tracing causal relationships.
  • If instructors know where students need the most help, they can quickly tweak their courses—and their games
  • Taiga Park requires players to look for the cause of a widespread fish die-off in a virtual river by "interviewing" park rangers, environmental scientists, and the owners of a logging company. While students learn about pH levels and runoff, they also come away with lessons on data analysis, complex cause-and-effect relationships, and communication.
  • found that she could use routine assignments—like peer reviews and summaries of research material—to analyze her students' higher-order thinking skills. All assignments can be linked back to a larger skill, she says. "Evidence is everywhere."
  • Blair Peterson on 10 Nov 10
     
    Using video games for learning and assessing student learning.
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Teach like a video game: Use assessment as learning and motivation - cleanapple.com - M... - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 03 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • When my students play games, they expect to get immediate, specific, and meaningful feedback that leads to improvement or a detailed analysis of their performance.
  • Halo is one of the deepest and most descriptive assessor I’ve ever seen.
  • I should be focused on describing their performance more than evaluating their product. I should also be looking for more opportunities to do this in small, sometimes informal ways, while students are learning and give students a chance to reflect on the descriptions I provide. This way, they can apply these reflections and learn better. This way, assessment becomes less extrinsic – performing for a grade reward – and more intrinsic –
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  • game designers carefully plan in micro-motivators to keep players feeling challenged and rewarded.
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