Sunday, April 4, 2010

james paul gee


 
we can show what things mean instead of tell them
nobody's giving you a lecture, they're showing what they mean

within the complicated language it comes in -simultaneously building up digital and literacy skills

people going into teaching among the lowest of digital literacy

call for break the mold schools - 
we need to be able to network those experiments
the MacArhur foundation is fed up with the K-12 system.  They have moved away from trying to change the system and are working on after school programs and other programs to make change.  This is what I understand from my conversations with people like Henry Jenkins.


social system around Tony Hawk

we're going to have to produce people to create those kinds of communities, teachers have to become designers of that kind of learning environment

they don't just consume, they produce

commercial games have only explored 1% of the potential
most of what we can do isn't going to be done by the commercial industry
but by unis and schools

take a look at more youtubes here

if you didn't get the info for tomorrow (attachement) here's a screen capture of it
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