The Pedagogy of Play and the Role of Technology in Learning The goal of the videogame “Civilization” is to build a civilization that stands the test of time. You start the game in 4000 B.C. as a settler and, with successful gameplay, can create a civilization that lasts until the Space Age. Throughout the game, you need to manage your civilization’s military, science, technology, commerce and culture. One doesn’t read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” to develop strategy before playing the game. One starts by playing. This model of learning is not only effective for videogames but for all digital tools, and I would argue that play — especially in the digital sense — is emerging as a pedagogical keystone for education in the 21st century. Stuart Brown, M.D., explains in his book, “Play,” how a range of scientific disciplines have revealed the importance of lifelong play. The power of play The iPad has been hyped as a device that will revolutionize education. Creating a ‘sandbox’ Joichi Ito Play is about exploring the possible. Related
Top 25 Back to School Web 2.0 Tools/Sites Digital Portfolio/about.me Portfolio: about.me: Check out my about.me profile! Saturday, August 22, 2009 Top 25 Back to School Web 2.0 Tools/Sites Posted by Erica Hartman at 6:15 PM Labels: NJAET middle school language arts free tools google conference, web 2.0 7 comments: jrsowash said... That for the reminder about twitter4teachers. August 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM Kristen said... Hi --I am a reporter from The Star-Ledger, and I am working on a story about Web 2.0 technologies used in NJ classrooms. September 16, 2009 at 11:55 AM Sarah said... Thanks for posting this list, it's prompted me to check out as many of Google's tools as I can so I can write about it on my staff blog. December 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM bob said... A great list. August 8, 2010 at 10:21 AM A great list. August 8, 2010 at 10:24 AM howell said... Great resource of sites...I will pass on to our district staff for their use this school year. August 11, 2010 at 9:11 AM BJBenfer said...
Professional blog | 21st Century Educator Recently I noticed that Google forms has an option to add multiple pages to a form, and to go to pages based on the responses to multiple choice questions added to each page. It occurred to me that an immediate use of this would be to construct a "choose your own adventure" story which I always loved reading when I was a student. The basic idea is, the students construct a story where the next page in the story depends on a decision made by the person reading the story. Generally in one of these books the reader flips to a different page depending on their decision and so create their own version of the story. With a sufficiently advanced plot, and a long enough book, there can be a very large number of ways a story can unfold. To recreate this in Google docs, you have to first create a standard Google form. While constructing your form, you are going to alternate between adding page breaks and adding multiple choice questions. The very last page of the form will have a submit button.
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence. Create Your Own Game – 7 Sites that let you create games online By: Abbas+ July 8, 2008 Create your own games online with few clicks. For those of you who always wondered how do people create those games where Bush is punching Kerry or Bush Dancing? All of these sites offer flash based games creation. Creating your own games wouldn’t have been so easy it if wasn’t for these sites. Sploder.com Spolder offers an option of creating two games and it offers complete inventory of objects that can be used for creating a game. Grid Paper PDFs Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful. Tip number one! Though I do return the correct header for a PDF, sometimes Explorer gets confused when downloading... So if you're running Windows, you may need to right-click a link and choose "Save link to disk". Tip number two! Some people may need to turn off the option in Adobe's Acrobat reader "shrink to fit" which may resize the grid slightly to fit your printer's printable area. Tip number three! If you want the hexes aligned with the other edge of the paper, just make your paper size "11 x 8.5" and print the result in landscape mode! Translations Belorussian (provided by Ucallweconn weblog) Other
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