Saturday, September 03, 2005

Innovate - Places to Go: Apolyton

Innovate - Places to Go: Apolyton

What sites like Apolyton suggest, however, is that instead of embedding a game into learning, it is possible to embed learning into a game.

What Downes is writing about here is pure, plain and simple cooptation.  Coopt the game paradigm to learn.  Internally motivate and adapt existing gaming frameworks.  That’s how you get around the “educational” and exogenous nature of most games created to teach.

Innovate - Epistemic Games

Innovate - Epistemic Games

epistemic frames

Hmmm.

Friday, September 02, 2005

online writing / writing online presentation | CultureCat

online writing / writing online presentation | CultureCat

Wonderful draft on weblog pedagogy.  Nobody has all the pieces, but some folks are joining the many loose ones they are finding on the Internet to begin to make it work.  Great work, Clancy Ratliff.