Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“ Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.” […]
Tonight's homework…play your Wii
How far away are we in education from actually having computer games that attract students? I want to know of the first school that stops looking at computer games and starts looking at Wii and PS3 as a way for students to learn in a digital world. From the Detroit Free Press comes an article “Games of learning take action […]
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Watching the Millennials in action part 2
The middle schoolers of teentek, and all our middle schoolers for that matter, are HUGE into this flash game. Monday I couldn’t keep the boys off of it. Every time I turned aroundsomeone had it open and was playing it. So I took a step back into thecorner of the room and just watched (Seriously…I went and stood inthe corner!) […]
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