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Jack Park

About Us - Learning 2.0 - 0 views

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    Grockit is about questioning together. To this end, we are developing an online learning game where people can teach each other. Our organization is about the space where learning and technology meet. By combining our years of experience as teachers and developers, we are creating a place where learners can meet other learners. You can read more about our thoughts on learning and technology in our blog. You can also learn more about how we live and work at Grockit.
Jack Park

CEUR-WS.org/Vol-386 - First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Gam... - 0 views

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    Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08) The power of narration and imagination in technology enhanced learning, September 16, 2008
Jack Park

News Games: Georgia Tech Journalism & Games Project - 0 views

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    What lies at the intersection of journalism and videogames? This research project seeks to understand the ways videogames can be used in the field of journalism, providing examples, theoretical approaches, speculative ideas, and practical advice about the past, present, and future of games and journalism.
Jack Park

Created from Scratch - MIT News Office - 0 views

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    Scratch is a simple, easy-to-learn programming language designed at MIT's Media Lab that lets anyone create and share video games and animated stories. Introduced just over a year ago, it has already attracted a wide following--particularly among kids aged 8 to 15--and a variety of uses that its creators never imagined. Now, Scratch users from around the world are gathering for the first of what is planned as an annual conference to discuss the software and its uses and to share ideas.
Mark Szpakowski

The Tech Elite's Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image | WIRED - 0 views

  • The experimentalism isn’t just a means to an end—an attempt to discover the perfect school. The experimentalism is the end.
  • Over the years, Khan had occasionally pursued the idea of starting a school
  • That same year, Khan ran his first summer camp for younger kids, and at the end of it one of the parents begged him to start a school.
    • Mark Szpakowski
       
      School in context of quest (raising a child), like the Ender's Game academy. In this case it's planetary thrival game. Ie, the school looks 7 generations ahead.
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    School and learning as playground for sensemaking. Being on the cusp of the cusp of the question is where it's at: in this case the kids are putting together their own school as their first question.
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