Exploring learning in the 2lst century
August 2006
Monthly Archive
Thu 17 Aug 2006
This week found CWA New Media team members at the “Vision Splendid – ICT: Research, Pedagogy, implementation in Schools” conference in sunny Adelaide.
A highlight was hearing from Professor James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a prominent author on the New Literacies. His entertaining exploration of “video games as learning machines for a global world” confirmed our view that there is a lot more to the world of gaming than meets the eye.
Source: Conference site
Thu 17 Aug 2006
This ICT in Schools research report is the latest in this long-running series. It provides both a handy snapshot of the availability and use of ICT (information and communication technologies) in New Zealand schools, and insights into how principals and teachers are integrating ICT into teaching and learning programmes, and their professional lives.
CWA New Media provided the project management and production services for this initiative.
Source: CWA New Media website
Fri 11 Aug 2006
StarLogo is developed by the MIT Teacher Education Program at MIT. Its website says:
“…StarLogo TNG is The Next Generation of StarLogo modeling and simulation software. While this version holds true to the premise of StarLogo as a tool to create and understand simulations of complex systems, it also brings with it several advances. Through TNG we hope to 1. Lower the barrier to entry for programming by making programming easier. 2. Entice more young people into programming through tools that facilitate making games. 3. Create compelling 3D worlds that encompass rich games and simulations.
Source: StarLogo – the Next Generation
Fri 11 Aug 2006
Don’t Click It challenges the senses because its goal is for users to navigate it without using a mouse. It is also an example of how the traditional interfaces to which we have become accustomed are no longer the only way to go.
Source: Don’t Click It
Fri 11 Aug 2006
The premise of this site is that if you were to imagine the Earth as a sandwich, flattened between two pieces of bread, and you put a toothpick through the centre of it, with wherever you are in the world being the top piece of bread, where in the world would the toothpick emerge on the other side of the sandwich? The site displays two maps so you can see the outcome.
Source: If The Earth Were a Sandwich
