To do is to be To be is to do So Do We? It is just good teaching Games taught me that modeling environments and taking on the roles are powerful ways to teach and learn. Piaget talked about roles as assimilation. You try on the role and see what part of the character is [...]
"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane
educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library
and educate yourself if you've got any guts."
-Frank Zappa
educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library
and educate yourself if you've got any guts."
-Frank Zappa
Posts Tagged ‘ learning ’
Video Games in the Classroom
7/28/2007
Video Games in the Classroom? I am a gamer. I am also a teacher for the Minneapolis Public Schools, and have been working with students on issues of Language Arts, Reading, and Video Games. I also offer a class called “Video games as learning tools.” This course is for teachers and people who are interested [...]
Top ten list #8: Ways to transform schools into centers of knowledge production and innovation
6/27/2007
Today’s list discusses how to move beyond the failures of U.S. education and transform our schools, communities, and families into centers of knowledge production and innovation. Schools of the agricultural and industrial ages produced graduates suitable for their economies and societies. Change is accelerating, and students that are being prepared for old society jobs cannot [...]
Using tech to teach the same old garbage
5/5/2007
Folks, when you use new technologies to teach the same old garbage, you’re not going to get the results that you want. The NY Times started to touch on this in their article, Seeing no progress, some schools drop laptops: …the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting [...]
Learning to be creative in education
4/10/2007
This was just noted over at e-rgonomic: At last year’s TED conference, Sir Ken Robinson made his case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it: View This Video on Google Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a thought leader on injecting innovation and [...]
China’s great leapfrog forward?
4/2/2007
Yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Magazine had an article on educational reform in China. Whereas the United States is moving toward an educational model that displays characteristics of traditional Chinese education (especially an emphasis on testing), the Chinese are moving toward an educational model that is, in their view, more Western. This means integrating liberal [...]
E-learning continues to grow
11/10/2006
The Sloan Consortium of online education institutions released its fourth annual report on the state of online learning in the United States. The report series asks key questions in regard to the extent of adoption and acceptance of online education. Among the findings: Online enrollment continues to grow, climbing to 3.2 million learners in 2006 [...]
LA Times: Colleges see the future in technology
9/14/2006
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a story on the adoption of technology in California’s higher education institutions. Gaming and simulation technologies are being explored to provide “more individualized instruction” that cater to both emotional and learning needs of students. Carol Twigg at the National Center for Academic Transformation is looking at online education. Writes [...]
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