As promised, we’ve made video of our event last Thursday, Legal Education in a Networked World, available on video. There’s a fun section right in the middle where we switch briefly over to Second Life and the panelists see how they’re being projected into cyberspace (screenshot below).
To get a full sense of what was going […]
The ideas presented at the State of Play session on education this past Saturday triggered a realization that online/computer simulations add the most value as compared with traditional teaching methods when:
The subject is best learned through role-playing
The subject must be modeled using complex data and formulae
The subject is amenable to learning through exploration
On top of […]
(un)Common Knowledge is happening this Thursday night at 6pm (details). The panelists for the event had a fruitful and intriguing preparatory conversation this morning. While our moderator, Prof. Charlie Nesson, is framing the specific questions for our panel, the discussion will certainly touch on some of the following issues:
What are the new skills demanded by […]
State of Play Session MP3 (large!)
Below are raw-text notes I took at the education session at State of Play. I’ll write something more coherent when I catch some time. At right you can see Becca and me participating in our own ad-hoc backchannel via Berkman Island.
Doug: transferability. Games as terrible environments, not for learning, but […]
I’m here at the State of Play / Terra Nova Symposium at New York Law School. Sadly I missed yesterday’s proceedings, but today’s lineup is also exciting, particularly the 11:15 session on virtual worlds and education.
I have to say in comparison with other similar conferences I’ve attended in the past, it’s a bit disappointing that […]
