Videogames are better teachers?
This Wired article brings up some very good points on how video games are teaching students today. Not how to carjack and shoot people, but how to manage a group of beings to solve problems (Pikmin), carry out intricate missions (Metal Gear Solid 2), and micromanage resources (Warcraft III).
How did videogames become such successful [...]
Student ratings of professors and teachers
Wired recently published the article Prof-Ratings Site Irks Academics. In it, they discuss the website RateMyProfessors.com:
While the site is ridiculously popular with students, university administrators and professors are finding it neither funny nor instructive. John Swapceinski, the site’s founder, says he gets lawsuit threats “pretty much on a weekly basis” (though no actual suits), for [...]
Photo Essay…A Day in the Life Remix - Ideas and thoughts from an EdTech
Dean Shareski has posted a neat photo project entitled Photo Essay…A Day in the Life Remix - Ideas and thoughts from an EdTech. Basically, at the top of the hour, what ever he is looking at he takes a picture.
This could easily be expanded to the classroom, maybe the student of the day takes the [...]