What we’re reading
A few selected articles that have come across our wire recently:
Microsoft’s Class Action - Very interesting look into the impact that technology can have on the classroom. It’s also interesting to see the movement of corporate America (in this case Microsoft) into public education and ponder what that means.
Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning - Want to see the future of education? Look at gaming. This article gives some hints as to why the way people learn in the future will look a lot more like the way people “play” today.
Diversity in Learning: A Vision for the New Millennium - Interesting to see how and why traditional education not only does not serve to increase diversity in learning but rather serves to squash it.
Come across more articles like these? Post them in the comments or e-mail them to jon @ edurev dot com. Thanks!
August 30th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Jon- Love the gaming article. I dunno if you have ever heard of typing of the dead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
but I think its a good example. One of the most fun experiences you can have– and you are learning how to type at the same time.
And we have all heard stories of people who used Microsoft’s flight simulators to learn how to fly planes.
Even before I learned how to drive, I knew how to drive stick, since I played so many racing games. haha The potential here is nuts. I think the math software out there now is lame, and they could be teaching much more complex stuff, we don’t need to be learning addition with games– get me deep into the most complex equations and theories, and id be much happier.