cc licensed flickr photo shared by neko_4343 In A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Raph Koster writes: It’s worth asking ourselves what skills are more commonly needed today. Games should be evolving toward teaching us those skills. The entire spread of games for children is fairly limited and hasn’t changed much. The basic skills …
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Using Hollywood to Teach Mathematics and Economics
cc licensed flickr photo shared by TW Collins I must qualify the following words by saying, “For the past ten hours, I have been reading/thinking about game design and the adaptation of commercial games as each applies to education.” Both lines of inquiry seem like a happy, welcomed educational endeavor, but approximately ten hours into …
Visualize Data
The ways in which these artists make data look beautiful is astounding. If you are interested in seeing more artistry, here’s one feed and here is another. All of the pictures are images that are links that might disappear…
Find Your Sentence?
At the risk of butchering a concept that I don’t fully understand because I haven’t read Daniel Pink’s Drive, I am unsure if one sentence is enough to encapsulate “me.” I am probably more like JFK in that sense, and that is the only semblance of a similarity that I have with the great president. …
Internet is to WWW as Education is to…
I made a few alterations to this post. It appears that David missed my point, and I think that this has to do with the way that I originally wrote my ideas. All alterations appear in italics. I also added a follow-up paragraph at the end that provides an explanation for what I thought David …
My Laptop Gathers Dust in Class
My mother gave me an incredulous look when I told her that I wanted a set of four spiral notebooks that cost $20 as a Christmas gift. I am not sure if it was the fact that I was asking for spiral notebooks or the high price tag that sparked the raised eyebrows. “Yup, that’s …
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