Assessment Using Games by James Gee

James Gee has written a many books on situated learning and what video games have to offer Education. This video explores how games are perfect considering the nature of assessment. Thanks to Kelli for the link.  Read More

Gilmore's Law, Smartphones and Wikipanion

The filters that school systems use to manage what students access will shortly become irrelevant to the young people being protected (from themselves?). How long before every student just accesses what they want in the playground via their mobile phone? Quite simply, it is Gilmore’s Law in action in our schools. One great use for students’ new wave of phones would be Wikipanion, available at the iPhone Apps Shop, which is bound to do... Read More