The "ITEST" community (NSF funded projects for IT experiences for students and teachers) includes several projects that focus on the use of games and sims in STEM education. I have heard interest from 3 projects thus far that could create a panel on that topic for SITE 2008. I'd like to identify 1 or 2 more projects at a minimum from either the ITEST or the broader community and invite them to join in that panel. Please help pass along names that I can contact about this...and provide me with … [Read more...]
Social Networking and Collaborative Communications
For months I have been studying what I thought were new technologies to find that in the education world the social networking was all the rage. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century … [Read more...]
Thinking about SITE 2008
Greetings! I wonder if people would like to begin thinking aloud about SITE 2008 in terms of the games and simulations theme. Dr. Baek of KNUE (Korea) and I have proposed a new book on digital simulations that are aimed at improving teaching (in case any of you have projects, research or writings in this area and would like to join in). I would like to organize another international panel on that topic, if anyone is interested. Also, EDC, the technical assistance group for the ITEST … [Read more...]
International Ideas and News – One World
I have just sent a niece off to Tanzania. When I made my first trip to Southern Africa, to Namibia I was struck by several people in the audience that looked just like her.When you only know Africa from the National Geographic, and from the depictions in the press you can have some very wrong ideas about the cultures, the countries and people in general. … [Read more...]
Integrating technology into social studies
Integrating technology into social studies instruction is a complex task that is dependent on a number of factors related to classroom practice. In Volume 7 Issue 2 of Cite Journal Social Studies (http://www.citejournal.org/vol7/iss2/socialstudies/article1.cfm) we present Mark Hofer and Kathy Swan's research on these issues as experienced by a 5th grade teacher using technology tools to facilitate her students' construction of historical documentaries. Hofer and Swan situate their report in the … [Read more...]
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