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Decorative Media Trap Example: The Elements: A Visual Exploration
The Elements: A Visual Exploration. Looks great. Basically a picture book. You’d think that for the price ($13.99) it would be more interactive and that it would include everything one would normally need from a table of elements – like … Continue reading
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A Stellar Example of Ed vs. Fun: Virtual Frog Dissection
I was looking at a “Top Ten Best of” list today. There are dozens, if not hundreds of these. It’s rarely made clear why or how the people posting these lists are qualified to judge, nor is it usually explained … Continue reading
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Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy and the notion of Productive Failure
It’s interesting how certain ideas seem to come together in bunches. I was at a conference this week and one of the keynotes talked about his notion of “productive failure“. This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some … Continue reading
Question of the Day: What is the most important ” ingredient” to create and sell a successful educative video game????
This is a discussion that recently started on one of the LinkedIn lists I’m on. It’s a really good question, but one without a simple answer. Suggested answers have included: There isn’t one thing – games are complex. Must be … Continue reading
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WHAT!? Computer Literacy should be MORE than learning to use your iPad?
Programming vs. “Technology” April 9, 2012, 8:00 am By Robert Talbert Dumbing Down : Stager-to-Go. Friday, April 6, 2012 By Gary Stager When Luerhmann coined the term, “computer literacy,” he intended it to mean computer programming the intellectual pursuit of … Continue reading
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The Value of the Designer Who Codes | Inc.com
“Knowing the technology better means more productive arguments when there are disagreements because everyone speaks the same language.” via The Value of the Designer Who Codes | Inc.com. If you want to design applications you need to understand how they … Continue reading
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Future Work Skills 2020 ~ repost from Stephen’s Web
A well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Instructional Media
This is a continuation of the conversation started earlier. This link looks like a good starting point – it lists a lot of important considerations related to the evaluation and selection of media. Sadly, much of it is out of … Continue reading
