crossing divides
North Korea has always held a place of fascination for me as my grandmother learned to read in the dark of the night in her village near Pyongyang before becoming a nurse. In honor of the death of Kim Jong-il, leader of the hermit kingdom, and in explaining the complexities of the history leading up the ...
The Digital Divide, International DE and Transmedia
While I’ve talked about this in more private settings, I’ve decided to openly post this topic regarding the digital divide and the concept of trans-media. This was brought up when the subject of International distance education is brought up and understandable skepticism about digital technology and Utopian solutions. International and rural education always bring up the very real concept of ...
On Productivity
Jane McGonigal – On Productivity from The School of Life on Vimeo. Jane McGonigal is a game designer from the Bay Area and has written a fantastic book called Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Change the World. Super charismatic speaker and offers interesting perspectives targeted that games are motivators for ...
Changing Paradigms of Education
Again, this may be geared toward K-12 but often the working world follows. It encourages multimodality and creative thinking. It recontextualizes the education question. Without the need for a bottom line, certainly there is are grassroots educational resources developed for the community at large that already benefit from this type of thinking. His argument: An ...
The Magic Circle and Augmented Deliverance
I’ve recently met people for group discussions in Second Life. I have to confess, my knowledge of navigating games is still negligible since my enthusiasm really began over indie games and the “slow game” movement where people examine their environment versus communicating. I was relieved several forms of communication were available since my microphone never ...
The Integrated Game and Community Learning
As someone ultimately interested in informal community based learning my last entry noted how the concept of learning from informal resources is now catching on in the business realm aimed at employee training. The concept of working peers now formally include the vast array of digital networking, bookmarking and microblogging web now the virtual community ...
Non-training Approach
In thinking about games, or interaction that induces informal learning for adults, I was beginning to think not only of the course ware, or of a virtual place of moderation but of the extended network and methodologies. Most often adult learning is considered in terms of corporate training, and while I’m interested more in what could ...