Posted in cool, physics, science, video games on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay . . . absolutely nothing to do with history or social studies but it is kinda techy so I’m passing it on. You’ll just have to deal with it. And I know once you play the game, you’ll be hooked. Thank me later!
The game is an online Flash game called Magic Pen and came [...]
Posted in cool, media literacy, technology integration, video games on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Was over at Andy Carvin’s Learning Now page and read about a group working to create a MMOLG - a Massively Multiplayer Online Learning Game. MMOGs have been around for awhile . . . but I can’t think of any that focus on “learning” things we teach in school.
The research seems pretty clear that playing [...]
Posted in cool, economics, election, government, history, lesson plans, video games on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Want to be a hero?
American Public Media, the group running many of the our public radio programs, has just created a very cool budget simulation that lets you solve America’s financial difficulties.
Budget Hero is an engaging and journalistically sound game that encourages players to think through the complexities and challenges of the federal budget and [...]
Posted in digital literacy, economics, media literacy, news, second life, social networks, technology integration, video games on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The beauty of the Web is that . . . well . . . everything is connected. You read an article that leads you to a site that connects to your RSS feed which is mentioned on Twitter that becomes a Skype conversation that sends you to an old listserv . . . and within [...]
Posted in cool, history, social studies, technology integration, video games on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The people over at the MIT Education Arcade have spent the last few years making some very cool toys for teachers. I have finally got around to playing with some their stuff this morning.
Installed a game called Neverwinter Nights on a couple of laptops, downloaded / installed the Revolution mod from the Education Arcade site [...]
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