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{ Monthly Archives } April 2007

MiT / Popular Culture and Learning Environments

Tuula Nousiainen, Child-Centered Design of Game-Based Learning Environments :
Example of why important “You get to say your own opinions and be active in these things.”
Multidisciplinary perspectives: Pedagogical principles / Design of Technology / Game Content (overlapping between the two)
Educational sciences (child-centered pedagogy) + Human-Computer Interaction (user-centered design) + Game design (player-centered design) + Sociology of [...]

2007 04 28 pedagogy: Multimedia
pedagogy: Simulation Comments (0)

MiT / Games and Play

Benjamin J Robertson, Architecture and Control: “Natural” Constraints on Cultural Production in the Networked Society — Not sure what this has to do with Games and Play, but the basic idea appears to be a modification of Lessig’s “Code is Law”: natural law as constraining materialist (or in Lessig’s case, code) law.
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Dan Roy, Constructing [...]

2007 04 28 pedagogy: Multimedia Comments (2)

Media in Transition / Modes of Learning call session

I’m here at the Media in Transition conference at MIT. What follows will be my unfiltered notes from these events.
9:00-10:300 Session: “Modes of Learning”
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Storytelling as a Method for Teaching Research Methods
Storytelling to convey complex ideas in non-complex way?
Why? Entertaining.
Benefits?
Break ice
Memorable
Does not replace analytical thinking
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Remixing + Transforming science-tech-society materials into an e-learning software
STS movement in teaching [...]

2007 04 28 pedagogy: Multimedia
pedagogy: Simulation Comments (0)

the Phantom Menace: an Earth Day post

Virtual worlds may one day reduce our fuel consumption by enabling us to substitute virtual for physical meetings, but even then, our virtual travel will not be costless. Computers draw considerable power from the grid, and their thirst for electricity is growing rapidly as CPUs and GPUs crank up.

These ghosts present a true menace.
I took [...]

2007 04 22 eco-computing Comments (1)

Coding gun control

A report in today’s New York Times illustrates both the promise and the difficulties of (legal) code as (software) code (U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun). Apparently, slight discrepancies between the wording of Virginia and federal laws that disqualify the “mentally defective” from purchasing a handgun created a gap that enabled Seung-Hui Cho [...]

2007 04 21 Code / Code Comments (0)

Simulations and the need for best practices

My third and last post (for now) on simulations, focusing on the need to identify best practices as a prerequisite for simulation teaching, at Law School Innovation.

2007 04 20 pedagogy: Legal Comments (0)

E-Discovery hits the White House?

A little off-topic here, but I find it amusing how e-discovery is quite possibly about to hit Gonzalez et.al. Applied to private corporations, e-discovery is a major and expensive undertaking, and has repeatedly revealed embarrassing information about the seamy (or, perhaps, quite normal) underside of corporate life, but when leveled against the government, and the [...]

2007 04 13 technology: Legal Comments (0)

Lawyers in the digital age

The letter was published after all, with fewer edits than it deserved (the last sentence, in particular, made no sense because of a last-minute edit I made). Link to Globe letters (it’s the 3rd one).

2007 04 01 pedagogy: Legal Comments (0)
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