As do many of you, I spend a lot of time researching and teaching about a variety of emergent media. (These days I’m focusing on digital storytelling, geocaching and gaming (specifically, Second Life).) However, I continuously find the areas that I wish to work on interrupted by issues related to advocacy. For example, I just read a fascinating article from Edutopia “Education at Risk,” which traces the much of the current NCLB debate back to the Regan years and the “A Nation at … [Read more...]
It’s Only a Game
It’s hard to believe that it was only two years ago that SITE started the IT Council committee on Games & Simulations. While mainstream acceptance of games as an educational medium is still a ways off; certainly, the role of games as a social phenomenon is now better understood. Just consider the past holiday season that saw an epic struggle among three boxes—PS 2, X-Box and Wii. The loser in that battle sold billions of dollars, while the winner sold billions more. … [Read more...]
iStory Tour: Costa Rica
Perhaps it could only be an organization like SITE that leaves one occasionally perplexed when attempting to post a blog entry. I have had the good fortune to work with a group of international educators since last summer on a project called iStory Tours. This 21st century learning approach to global awareness allows participants in academic travel to blog, podcast and create digital stories (in our case, we’re also playing around with geocaching). (The iStory Tour initiative was developed by … [Read more...]