Teachings of a Zen Gardener over at PickTheBrain is a beautiful analogy for what teachers do.
The always excellent Will Richardson posted “School as Node” over at Weblogg-Ed. The original post he references talked about revolution but Will argues that we need to engage in a conscious act of evolution. This is a nice follow on to the articles just published here by Paul Schumann.
Unconscionable. Really. Newspaper Seriously Errs Reporting Videogame Study at Educational Games Research. We deserve a better press than this – oh wait we have the web now.
Logic+Emotion published When Presentation Eclipses Story. Textbook publishers are on the horns of a dilemma here – pretty covers and whizzy free-with-order stuff sells books – but at the heart of it we should remember that it is about kids understanding the content. Its also a good reminder for anyone doing a presentation.
Sad but true. Starting to notice – the only people school firewalls keep away from resources are the teachers – students know of every proxy on the planet – from the Classroom 2.0 blog. Related to my entry Disfunction Junction
Love this list – Banned Books: Have you read one? from Clarksville, TN Online. I’m a piker – I’ve only read 18 of them. But this gives me some ideas..
On the edugaming front at the The Forge · Straight From Central Casting is a disturbing reflection on the role of racism when creating “the bad guys” in game design. Think this doesn’t matter for the real world? Head over to DailyKos to read a hilarious send up of anti-muslim stereotyping.
Play this game! Over at PC World Phishing Game Warns Users highlights a great educational game that everyone should play. I consider myself fairly savvy and I only got about 75% right the first time through.
Hat tip to Paul Schumann – this is a really cool video of a crowd game using technology. Look at the intensity – we want that in our classrooms!
Must see video – Chimp vs. Pacman.