An NSF news release on the University of Oklahoma’s K20 Center Digital Game Based Learning project, McLarin Adventures. McLarin Adventures is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG… like World of Warcraft) created as a research project into the effectiveness of multiplayer digital games as educational tools. The McLarin Adventures game engine was developed from the […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I posted abut the K20 Center’s OK-ACTS Leadership Seminar. While the change pedagogy and introduction to classroom technologies is great, I think there is room for improvement. One key activity is a guided reading of resources that happen to be located on the web. The resources might as well have been PDFs located on […]
Continue reading →I’m writing this post from one of the K20 Center’s OK-ACTS Leadership Seminars. The OK-ACTS (Oklahoma Achievement through Collaboration and Technology Support) program works with schools leaders through the leadership seminar and schools that have received funding for technology and professional development through a grant from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust (the grant is administered […]
Continue reading →Continuing with the perceived attributes of innovation (previous post)… 2. Compatibility. Back to the realization that some great technologies out there are incompatible with current modalities of teaching and learning. I would love to see more Web2.0 tools in the classrooms, but these tools require (gasp!) collaboration and creativity, neither of which are part of […]
Continue reading →I’ve started reading Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovation. What a great book! It’s got my brain spinning and making some strong connections to our work at the K20 Center. First, I really like his definition of innovation: An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other […]
Continue reading →Last Wednesday, I was asked to give the Keynote speech at the Oklahoma Technology Association lunch during the Encyclomedia conference in Oklahoma City. It was a chance to introduce some emerging ideas I’ve had for educational reform. Of course, 40 minutes was barely enough time to scratch the surface and bring the activities of the […]
Continue reading →The Time magazine cover article this week by Richard Stengel proposes a national service initiative using volunteers to serve in much needed national support in such areas as environmental projects, education, health care, etc. I think it’s a great idea. Mr Stengel throws out a 10 point plan, three of are particularly important in the […]
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