Archive for Gamers
In case you haven’t seen or heard, Mark Oehlert is going to be giving a presentation titled Living and Working with Games and Gamers as part of the Adobe Luminary eSeminar Series: eLearning. Mark is a great speaker and expert on the topic, you don’t want to miss it. Here is the description: With Gen […]
Continue Reading →Kids who have grown up with video games, Gamers, are self-educating. They seek out and learn from the information that is available to them. They do not rely on formal educational settings for their learning. The gamers’ learning style: Ignores any hint of formal instruction. They are self-directed learners. Includes trial and error and approaching […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Sometimes, things just all seem to come together at once. A number of alumni and friends of Bloomsburg University’s Instructional Technology program have sent me some great links and they are all about wildly different things but all are related to the gamer generation. Check them out. Here is one titled Most-Praised Generation Craves Kudos […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Warning sarcasm ahead You may have read that there is a scandal brewing in schools across the United States and even the world. Kids are using iPods and MP3 players to cheat on tests. A horrible use of technology…those darn electronic gizmos…they are corrupting the youth of the world. An article by Associated Press called […]
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Leave a Comment (12) →Over at Learning Visions, Cammy Bean posted an entry titled Games for Girls… there she discusses the fact that it seems that girls aren’t really gamers. I encounter that thought a great deal when I talk to groups about the gamers and how they like to learn. So much so that I carefully researched and […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →I’ve been a fan of Jellyvision’s You Don’t Know Jack for a while, my first CD of the game had the following system requirements: 486SX/33 or better microprocessor Windows 3.1x or Windows 95 8MB of RAM 15 MB of Free Hard Disk Space 2X CD-ROM drive Video display capable of at least 640×480 resolution with […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →Remember School House Rock? It was a fun, interesting way to learn the boring aspects of conjunctions, how a bill becomes a law and multiplication tables (remember 3 is a magic number.) This type of knowledge is known in academic circles as declarative and conceptual knowledge. Information that must be memorized as well as concepts […]
Continue Reading →In 1994, Time Magazine named the “Internet” the person of the year. In that same year, Sony released the Playstation One in Japan and the next year in the United States and Europe. If you were born in 1994, you have grown up with the Internet, video games and the cell phone. To you, these […]
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