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Mining Minecraft Part 1 of 3 - 1 views

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Kristina Thoennes on 06 Jan 13

Series of blog posts by Marianne Malmstrom (aka Knowclue) about connecting and learning with students in the virtual spaces that attract them, especially Minecraft.

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Mary Clark on 02 Jul 12

I wonder if we could have a stamp made? In the long run, it would be a lot cheaper.

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Game Play Is Important for Learning - 0 views

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Lucas Gillispie on 03 Jul 12

Article about the use of Tabula Digita's Dimension M in the classroom.

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Quest to Learn Website - 0 views

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Lucas Gillispie on 03 Jul 12

Quest to Learn is a school for digital kids. It is a community where students learn to see the world as composed of many different kinds of systems. It is a place to play, invent, grow, and explore. For weekly updates, check out the Q2L Relay!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Quest to Learn is a school for digital kids. It is a community where students learn to see the world as composed of many different kinds of systems. It is a place to play, invent, grow, and explore. For weekly updates, check out the Q2L Relay!</div>

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Avatars Teach Teens About Self-Image | Edutopia - 3 views

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shared by Katy Vance on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached

Each time the students created a new avatar, Whiting would assign them to a different pod, or small group, within Teen Second Life. Pods of four or five students would virtually fly to a private space where they used chat tools to discuss a set of questions posed by Whiting.
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  I LOVE this! What a great way to get students talking about a difficult concept.
  
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Lucas Gillispie on 03 Jul 12

Eighth graders type furiously on the keyboards in a middle school computer lab. Their spirited online chat is all about appearances: Who looks gross? Who wants a makeover? Most teachers would ban this kind of digital discussion, but not health teacher Diane Whiting...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Eighth graders type furiously on the keyboards in a middle school computer lab. Their spirited online chat is all about appearances: Who looks gross? Who wants a makeover? Most teachers would ban this kind of digital discussion, but not health teacher Diane Whiting...</div>

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Katy Vance on 10 Jul 12

"I immediately understood the potential," Sheehy says. "In creating an avatar, students would have so many opportunities to reflect on the choices they make." The site allows teens to modify every aspect of their avatar's appearance, including body type, hair color, skin tone, and wardrobe. Talking about the choices the students were making was the logical next step for learning.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I immediately understood the potential," Sheehy says. "In creating an avatar, students would have so many opportunities to reflect on the choices they make." The site allows teens to modify every aspect of their avatar's appearance, including body type, hair color, skin tone, and wardrobe. Talking about the choices the students were making was the logical next step for learning.</div>

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Digital Game Based Learning: Educational Video Games? - 0 views

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The Wave of the Future? The typical college student plays an estimated 1.8 hours a day of video games (Prensky, 2001b ). Understandably, educators want a piece of that! The US military uses computer war games for training for everything from high-level international command coordination to using a weapon (see AP, 2003 and Prensky, 2001b ).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Wave of the Future? The typical college student plays an estimated 1.8 hours a day of video games (Prensky, 2001b ). Understandably, educators want a piece of that! The US military uses computer war games for training for everything from high-level international command coordination to using a weapon (see AP, 2003 and Prensky, 2001b ).</div>

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Marc Prensky's Weblog - 0 views

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