January 2010
1 post
[Top Story] Ten Things Missing From the iPad: The iPad was supposed to change...
– wiredmag
July 2009
14 posts
The Video Game Revolution | PBS →
Explore this amazing feature on video game history at PBS.org!
1969 - The New York Times →
Check out this amazing interactive graphic from the New York Times!
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies... →
Flash tops the list of the 10 best learning tools... →
Top 100 Learning Games Links →
http://blog.ihobo.com/2009/07/games-as-learning.htm... →
eLearn: Feature Article →
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Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering | Video on TED.com
edublogs: If the Army sees the potential in... →
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in... →
This is an AMAZING web resource for Social Studies or geography teachers. Check it out!
June 2009
21 posts
The old-style lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a...
– Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott (via globalglobal)
Ideas themselves are perhaps the ultimate social software, evolving via the...
– Tom O’Reilley (via globalglobal)
Teaching Online Journalism » Visual journalism:... →
Great artilce on online journalism in multimedia.
Teaching Game Design →
A great blogroll selection from Bill Dorsey’s page.
A window into their lives - Boston.com →
This is a great article on girls and blogging. They seem to gravitate toward more of a diary-blog, but it’s interesting to know how central it is to young people’s social lives.
World Mosaic Created From 1001 Web 2.0 Logos →
DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH | Kids' Informal Learning... →
An interesting website with a lot of useful acadmeic articles!
I see democracy, government by amateurs, as a way of confessing the limits of...
– “The Amateur Spirit” by Daniel Boorstin
It’s interesting to think about Boorstin’s wonderful essay in light of the blogosphere and learning in the Web 2.0 era.
Ideas themselves are perhaps the ultimate social software, evolving via the...
– Tim O’Reilly
National Center for the History of Electronic... →
globalglobal:
This is an excellent resource on the history of video games. I recommend reading the PDF file at the bottom of the page, “Concentric Circles: A Lens for Exploring the History of Electronic Games”.
It’s not often that we think of video games as artifacts of history, but they have been integral to modern cultural, aesthetic and educational development. This institution does us a...
Now, though, for the first time in its history, young people are watching less...
– Check out this great article from Edge.org on the “cognitive surplus” and how we can take advantage of it. Be sure to read the articles and watch the video too!
Edge: GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS A Talk By Clay Shirky
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