It could be pretty useful (okay, just plain fun) to create your own comic strip for an activity or two in your course.
PikiKids - Create your own Web Comics
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Fascinating talk on games and rewards. I
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Fascinating talk on games and rewards. I’m always fascinated by intrinsic and extrinsic rewards — how they work together and how they cancel each other out. This video doesn’t really address intrinsic/extrinsic reward systems (it really focuses on the extrinsic systems), but it’s worth [...]
A great quote from Mark @ e-Clippings (Learning as Art). Emphasis is mine.
…wanted to say that there is something troubling to me about the use of game mechanics or this trend of gamificiation. I don’t know exactly what it is but maybe it smells to me a bit like how “e” was gonna change everything in the [...]
Constructivism, inspired by the work of John Dewey, is a theory of learning that’s quite consistent with our approach in designing to ruzuku.
Constructivism is a learning theory or educational philosophy that many educators began to consider in the 1990s. One of the primary tenets of this philosophy is that learners construct their own meaning from new information, as they interact with reality or others with different perspectives. Constructivist learning environments require students to utilize their prior knowledge and experiences to formulate new, related, and/or adaptive concepts in learning. Under this framework the role of the teacher becomes that of a facilitator, providing guidance so that learners can construct their own knowledge. Constructivist educators must make sure that the prior learning experiences are appropriate and related to the concepts being taught. Jonassen (1997) suggests “well-structured” learning environments are useful for novice learners and that “ill-structured” environments are only useful for more advanced learners. Educators utilizing technology when teaching with a constructivist perspective should choose technologies that reinforce prior learning perhaps in a problem-solving environment. (Wikipedia)
Dewey suggested teachers be “guides” rather than “directors” — we use the same term, Guide, in ruzuku.
This article provides a general, high-level introduction to constructivism and its application in online learning.
Toward constructivism for adult learners in online learning environments
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Great talk from Lift about how kids teach the
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Great talk from Lift about how kids teach themselves. I’m very curious about the motivating factors for these kids as compared to kids in more affluent regions — as well as what kinds of self/collective-organizing and self/collective-teaching would happen if the task were with [...]
Arlo Guthrie
You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.