Resources added to Diigo (weekly)

• iPad Educators interview with Karl Kapp

  Karl wrote a book on Gamification of Learning & Instruction. This is an interview.

  tags: gaming gamification

  • people play games because of they can become engaged with the game through stories, challenge and mystery
  • Games provide for immediate feedback.

• The Global Goals

  Project to have students create projects that lead to sustainability.

  tags: sustainability global goals

• Why teachers should reconsider their beliefs about learning – The Washington Post

  Interesting and well cited article from Alfie Kohn

  tags: teachers beliefs learning

• Why Gaming? Goals for Gaming Programs in Libraries

  2nd article about value of games in libraries

  tags: gaming libraries

• Gaming & Literacy: Exploring the Connections

  Article by Scott Nicholson from Digitale Bibliotheek

  tags: games literacy gamification

• AMAZING CONCEPT MAP: What are the established lear

  AMAZING CONCEPT MAP: What are the established learning theories? https://t.co/WxAyaIVtp1 #edchat #21stedchat https://t.co/T6ET0lgA19

  tags: edchat 21stedchat twitter favorite

• 100 Videos and Counting: Lessons From a Flipped Classroom

  Good next steps post about Flipped Classroom

  tags: Flipped Classroom flipped

• The Basics of Open Technology

  Valuable post and excellent perspective from Ira Socol

  tags: 1:1 technology edutopia

• ‘You Have Died of Dysentery’: How Games Will Revolutionize Education | Strange Loop Games

  Great commentary about the value of games.

  tags: games value

  • For something to be traditionally seen as such it needs to teach, it needs to increase your knowledge, it needs to make you remember facts.
    • Implies that learning is passive
  • Pull, not push
  • One of the reasons educational games are typically focused on more rote skills is due to the pressures that drive education funding: student assessment and raising test scores.

• ​The best starter-coding language? How about English?

  Article about Douglas & Mark Kiang using interactive fiction as a way to teach coding, gaming, and thinking.

  tags: en
  glish coding gaming gamification

• What schools can learn from corporate mentoring

  Interesting post about the power of digital mentoring for corporate workers

  tags: mentoring apprenticeship cognitive apprenticeship

• The first School in the Cloud learning lab in the US opens in Harlem | TED Blog

  Post describing SOLE initiative in Harlem

  tags: school SOLE sugata mitra

• Speech to Text: Free Options for Mac, PC & More

  Speech to Text: Free Options for Mac, PC, Chromebooks & More http://t.co/2gQ83fHPBG #edtech #gafe #edapps #spedapps http://t.co/EUTOmBItCt

  tags: edtech gafe edapps spedapps twitter favorite

• Ruben Puentedura on Applying the SAMR Model – YouTube

  One of the best SAMR explanations- Ruben Puentedura on Applying the SAMR Model https://t.co/y33TBKkI62 #ddmstech #mpmstech

  tags: ddmstech mpmstech twitter favorite

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.