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A blog post in which a teacher details the "gamification" of his classroom. It's an interesting read, although I'm not sure it's really what Gee has in mind, nor am I sure Daniel Pink ("Drive") would approve.

Great rant against the "dogooders" of literacy campaigns. From the article "So, every day "we," led by politicians of dubious education and intentions, and by self-enriching dogooders like Pam Allyn, label children as pathologically diseased because their brains don't work exactly like "our" brains. And then, we administer daily doses of humiliation because we somehow forget that someone like Socrates managed to know a whole hell of a lot without being "literate" at all - and, in fact - opposing literacy in every form."

This is really interesting, especially as we approach the time to begin designing our syllabi.

From the article: "The idea of an "open source curriculum" has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up with the decentered open source potential of digital media, and what are the political implications?"

From the article: "We have the content and we have the skills to build our own GarageBand for education."

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

This post is full of links based around the ideas of learning gamification. You'll see some familiar names as well. :)

Okay, so I went to post this, and then saw that Karissa beat me to it... ;-)

Very cool classroom design modeled on apple stores and coffee shops