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Our Learning community transition project. Bottom up initiatives with ‘sustainability’ and ‘scalability’
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 8, 2008
- In: capacity-building | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Inclusion | sustainability | teaching and learning
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I’m currently working on putting together a project which is a part of our learning community transition programme. It’s all about games-based learning, delivered through the Nintendo DS and on-line through GLOW. I’m working with a fantastic group of head teachers who recognise the value in terms of education to the kids and professional development to [...]
The passion and the vision
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 14, 2008
- In: AiFL | change | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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I’ve been saying for a while now that the problem with much of the educational research produce is that it’s qualitative rather than quantitative. Not that investigating the so-called soft indicators is a bad thing as they do relate to achievement in its broadest sense, but being able to show by careful measurement and statistical [...]
Big lottery – Big plans
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 9, 2008
- In: games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Quality assurance | teaching and learning
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..just had word that my recent big lottery fund bid has been successful – it means I can now go ahead and buy 10 mini notebooks and 10 Nintendo DS consoles with brain-training software for some out-of-hours school projects we want to run during this session using on-line science based games and DS maths and [...]
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
- In: AiFL | Finland | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | Uncategorized | VLE
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It’s certainly been an eventful year for me. Looking forward to a beach in Turkey next week, I got a big dose of the reflection city blues and have been thinking all day about how best to sum up 2007-8 in a single post. I suppose I started this academic year back last August [...]
Should learning be fun ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 25, 2008
- In: games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Research | teaching and learning
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Talking with my students over the past couple of weeks, the subject of what makes good lessons kept returning to the ‘f’ word… fun. We’ve been doing interviews discussing our experiences using GLOW and ICT this year and what the young people particularly like about their time in these classes is this element of fun [...]
Digital natives-the full story ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 21, 2008
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For anyone who is interested, Marc Prensky has a blog… http://www.marcprensky.com/blog/ It has links to all his published work to date. Worth a look I think.
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