We make lasting connections through play, but the role of play in learning is an idea that continues to meet resistance. Part of the reason could be tone. We like our learning serious, intentional, and academic. This is reflected through a parallel insistence on an outcomes-based learning system where learning objectives are determined and assessments…
In the following video from Digital Media Research Hub, Katie Salen discusses the role of play in learning.
Social learning has always been a staple of education since Piaget, Thorndike, Vygotsky, and countless others before them began exploring how people learn. At its most basic level, this idea can be reduced to the need to socialize thinking, and experiment through interaction, play, and authentic, self-driven performance. In 12 Tips For Supporting Social Collaboration Jane Hart from Center for…
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.
Chris Langan was profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s book as “the world’s smartest man.” The former bouncer has an IQ measure between 195 and 210.
Whether you’re flipping your classroom, or learning from home, YouTube is an incredible source of mobile learning resources.
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Here, Jeff Brazil discusses entrepreneurial learning, making more concrete the abstraction that has been called “informal learning.”
Science enthusiasts may receive a broader, more edifying educational experience by indulging in all of these flipped classroom videos.
Let’s follow the logic, since it holds some promise of solving vexing & persistent problems of boredom and ineffectiveness that we see daily.
Whether or not video games are truly art is a silly debate that keeps popping up everywhere–usually by those that continue to browbeat gaming based on games that are too (insert adjective here) for their tastes. For me, it’s difficult to not think of them as art–and as a woefully under-developed medium to promote interaction,…
From removing barriers to learning, to creating an environment where it’s safe to take risks here’s what you owe to your students.
Placing an iPad into the lap of every student is nothing if not a sign that teachers are more than willing to give up control of pace and access,
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