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• 19 Oct 09
  

  Hiram Cuevas

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  • SINCE the beginning of mass education, schools have relied on what is known in educational circles as “chalk and talk”.
  • Abandoning it, though, is what Katie Salen hopes to do. Ms Salen is a games designer and a prof
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  • • essor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, in New York.
    • Whether things will work the way Ms Salen hopes will, itself, take a few years to find out. The school plans to admit pupils at the age of 12 and keep them until they are 18, so the first batch will not leave until 2016

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        Hiram Cuevas on 2009-10-19

        Will traditionalists use long data collection phase as an opportunity to maintain the status quo?
• 17 Oct 09
  

  dean groom

  It sounds like a cop-out, but the future of schooling may lie with video games
  

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  Michael Wacker

  Games lessons
  
  
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  It sounds like a cop-out, but the future of schooling may lie with video games

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  • idea of a pedagogue leading his pupils more or less willingly through a day based on periods of study of recognisable academic disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, history, geography and whatever the local language happens to be, has rarely been abandoned.
  • Instead of chalk and talk, children learn by doing—and do so in a way that tears up the usual subject-based curriculum altogether
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  • • domains include Codeworlds (a combination of mathematics and English), Being, Space and Place (English and social studies), The Way Things Work (maths and science) and Sports for the Mind (game design and digital literacy). Each domain concludes with a two-week examination called a “Boss Level”—a common phrase in video-game parlance.
    • it is not enough just to apply new technologies to existing processes—for maximum effect you have to apply them in new and imaginative ways.
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  Tony Searl

  "Quest to Learn draws on many roots. One is the research of James Gee of the
  University of Wisconsin. In 2003 Dr Gee published a book called “What Video
  Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy”, in which he argued that
  playing such games helps people develop a sense of identity, grasp meaning,
  learn to follow commands and even pick role models. Another is the MacArthur
  Foundation’s digital media and learning initiative, which began in 2006 and
  which has acted as a test-bed for some of Ms Salen’s ideas about
  educational-games design. A third is the success of the Bank Street School for
  Children, an independent primary school in New York that practises what its
  parent, the nearby Bank Street College of Education, preaches in the way of
  interdisciplinary teaching methods and the encouragement of pupil
  collaboration."

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  Alec Couros

  "It sounds like a cop-out, but the future of schooling may lie with video games"

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• 16 Oct 09
  

  Liz Becker

  "It sounds like a cop-out, but the future of schooling may lie with video games"

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  Frank Bonsal III

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  Will traditionalists use long data collection phase as an opportunity to maintain the status quo?

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