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...]
Tech Divide, Data Divide
Training Divide and lack of Digital Equity, a look at NCLB and the Future … [Read more...]
Research threads
There is some interesting discussion about research tucked in under the Digital Storytelling category, with comments from both Bernard Robin and Gerald Knezek, chair of our Research and Evaluation committee. Gerald's response to Cynthia Garrety draws together some threads from different places and makes links between his current work in Ecuador and Mike's project in Costa Rica. You can find it under Research in the Digital Storytelling area. As the activity in this blog site increases, it will … [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...]
IT Council – finding a focus
The IT Council is a broad and eclectic grouping. That can present both challenges and opportunities. Because members and the committees to which they belong are scattered in interests and geography there are challenges to finding a common focus and the time to engage in conversation. The same characteristics offer opportunities for cross-fertilisation of ideas across areas of interest and location. … [Read more...]