Here’s the PowerPoint presentation for the talk I gave this afternoon at Immersive Education Day at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
[ EDIT: Link fixed. Sorry about that! ]
[ UPDATE: The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on this event, and I'm mentioned near the end. ]
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 [...]
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 [...]
