Harold Jarche has an excellent summary and brief commentary on Haques’ “User Generated context” article. Although much of Jarche’s comments are in context of tertiary education, one can see how it could naturally extend to learning for secondary education, such as for the youth at junior high level. Jarche quite astutely summarizes it saying
Haque says [...]
Alex iskold writes about “The Future of Computer Applications: Help me or Entertain me”. I think that this question is right on the ball. If you look at the latest iPhone or Facebook application development craze you realize that the most popular definitely fit into one of these two categories. He says:
These days work and [...]
At a time when the youth at junior high level think that the Periodic table is just a mess of unintelligble symbols and numbers that they have to memorize for their chemistry exams, Brian Haveri, shows us that using a periodic table metaphor is a very neat idea to visualize just about anything! He offers [...]
In terms of junior youth education projects worth keeping an eye on, here’s one:
Kiwi Heroes is an upcoming and full-featured MMOG for kids and young teens. It’s complete with character advancement, special powers and abilities, extensive social and community features, and a world full of dynamic solo and group-based adventures and wondrous places to explore.
Scheduled [...]
Ben Williamson writes about “Serious Games”:
“Serious Games” is a term used to describe computer and videogames developed for a purpose other than pure entertainment, for example, in the military, health, social policy and education. The Apply Serious Games event (10 July 2008) was intended to explore the state of the debate in this area, as [...]
