Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow a High School Teacher Is ‘Gamifying’ World News “A new game called Fantasy Geopolitics (think Fantasy Football meets Model United Nations) is radically changing the way high school students in Minnesota are interacting with the news. In 2009, Eric … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Convincing Case for Sending Your Kids Outside to Play Alone | Inhabitots. YES!!!! A recent story in The New York Times discussed how play has all but vanished from childhood. The article states, “Too little playtime may seem to rank far … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbout This Project | Adjunct Project About This Project Two-thirds of the faculty standing in front of college classrooms each day are off the tenure track. But getting information about the salaries of this army of adjuncts and the campus … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSigh. Sandy Hook Shooting: Video Game Violence Isn’t to Blame | TIME.com. Dec. 20, 2012 Yesterday, Senator Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill calling on the National Academy of Sciences to “study” video game violence on children. Speaking of the recent … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWorth Reposting…. Clay Shirky is our MP3 » FOLLOWERS OF THE APOCALYPSE. For those who don’t know, Clay Shirky talks and writes about the Interwebs. He’s faculty @ NYU . He likes to make predictions about the future. He’s now … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI came across this today (Thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger): Second, we have become painfully aware of how badly (or how little) some of our colleagues read. Articles are too often cited, by authors and by referees, as making the exact … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesThese are public postings of my writings for the first course of the Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design and Research at Michigan State University. Each week, we are required to post three responses/reactions to queries posted by other … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThese are public postings of my writings for the first course of the Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design and Research at Michigan State University. Each week, we are also required to post three questions for the rest of … Continue reading