If you know a young person ages 6-13, consider having them enter into the Lego Click Awards contest. The contest asks kids to write an essay about innovation and provides a leading question.If you could event anything, What would it be? Describe how to use it? How did you get the idea?Why are you excited […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Now video games are sneaking into the design of entire curriculums and starting to influence education in interesting and exciting ways. The Quest school located in Manhattan (New York) is creating a curriculum that is radical different from other schools. According to the web site, “Quest is not a school whose curriculum is made up […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Opening my talk at the PDG Momentum 2009 Conference in Philadelphia. This year I once again had the privilege of speaking at the client conference of Performance Development Group (PDG). I was challenged with a really interesting topic. The title of my talk was “The Wrong Information to the Wrong Person at the Wrong Time: […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Class visits the Holocaust Museum in Second Life. This class consisted of three different parts. The first part we visited the exhibit at the US Holocaust Museum. The interactive nature of the exhibit and the interactions of the avatars with the exhibit made it a great educational place to visit. Holocaust Museum has some really […]
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Leave a Comment (14) →What are the Results of Good ID While informal learning is all the rage and provides a number of benefits like speed and peer-to-peer interaction and exchanges of information, good, sound instructional systems design is still necessary. A systematic approach provides good sound instruction and promotes learning and knowledge acquisition. As designers of instruction via […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Catching up with Ty. While in Arizona, I had the good fortune to meet up with a former student, Ty Howard and catch up with his busy work as an adjunct faculty member among other projects he was doing. It is always good to see a former student and to hear what they are doing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Gordon introducing Mike–the Educator of the Year. Congratulations to my colleague and friend, Mike Qaissaunee who won the Educator of the year Award at the National Science Foundation’s HI-TEC conference in Arizona. It is a well deserved award. He was introduced for the award by Gordon Snyder and you can read Gordon’s introduction and discussion […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Experimenting with building in SL. This class was a blended class, as I am travelling in AZ, I recorded the first part of the session as an asynchronous class which students listened to before attending the “live” session. The recording discussed Learning Archetypes and using the ADDIE model to create instruction. The presentation below combines […]
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Leave a Comment (15) →In honor of the Apollo 11 flight, I have gathered a few space related games. A few are even educational. Take some time to relive the space flight with these games and even learn a few things in the process. Go to NASA’s Kids Club to play all kinds of neat space games for elementary […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it was a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). No country had ever put a man on the moon but a mere eight years later the goal was accomplished. The country geared up […]
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