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 I recently attended a session by Rory McGreal at the Tlt Summit. Rory was discussing how video games are often considered to be making us more isolated and how they are destroying students ability to communicate. Rory points to the book as the real culprit. Before the printed book, people had to flock to a select [...]  Today I’m attending Saskatchewan Interactive. It’s a one day conference bringing together folks from a variety of industries and sectors to look at changing media and education. The lineup looks pretty good. I”m particularly interested in the Second Life presentations. I’ll blog all the sessions. The evening session included a history of video games with opportunity [...]  A colleague of mine sent me this link : Video games can reshape education: U.S. scientists . The group found many video games require players to master skills in demand by today’s employers. And here I thought employers were interested in students who could understood dangling particples and quadratic equations. “This is not an, ‘If you can’t beat [...] |
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