Some months ago, I wrote a post on multitasking teens. A recent article from the New York Times points to some new research on enhancing concentration through the use of visual stimuli, much like the stimuli we receive from a television. When something bright or novel flashes, it tends to automatically win the competition for […]
Continue reading →For the last few weeks, my 7 year old daughter, Willow, and I have intensely been engaged in Will Wright’s newest game creation, Spore. First, this is one of the most incredble games I’ve ever played. I cannot begin to express how much fun I’ve had playing this game with my daughter, much less how […]
Continue reading →I’ve been attending the Advanced Weather and Society Integrated Studies WAS*IS Workshop: Beyond Storm Warnings: A collaboration between stakeholders, the National Weather Service (NWS), and the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT). The workshop has focused on the National Weather Center’s HWT and the role the social sciences and key stakeholders (Emergency Management, public leadership, and the […]
Continue reading →Arthur RothKopf, senior VP of the US Chamber of Commerce, wrote a decent response to another question at Politico.com: Jan Morrison of the Gates Foundation recently posed a rhetorical question that perfectly sums up the state of K-12 education: “Do our schools still look like they did in the 1950s – now ask yourself, do […]
Continue reading →I haven’t been one to use this blog to comment on others, but this posting just irked me. Andrew Coulson with the Cato Institute writes in his most recent post: Senator Obama sends his own two daughters to the private “Lab School” founded by John Dewey in 1896, which charged $20,000 in tuition at the middle […]
Continue reading →In January, the New Media Consortium published its annual report on key emerging learning technologies, The Horizon Report. I’m a bit late reading it and it is by no means new news, but for those educators looking for summer reads, this should be at the top of the list. A distillation of trends, the report […]
Continue reading →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 […]
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