So here's second part of what you should do when you first sign up for Supercool School . . . click this link and be enlightened.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Getting Started w/ Supercool School Pt. 2
So here's second part of what you should do when you first sign up for Supercool School . . . click this link and be enlightened.
How To Get Started w/ Your Supercool School Pt. 1
Take a look at this link below to get the very first things you should do after you sign up to have your very own Supercool School. Stay Tuned for part 2.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Just Found Out about Prezi.com
And my my my is it awesome or what!!!
That is all for now . . . check out www.prezi.com and as always continue to
Live --> Love --> Learn
Monday, March 1, 2010
Tic Tac Toe Ten Day (T minus 10)
Behold the day of celebration is almost upon us, tell a friend or two to join the movement and download Tic Tac Toe Ten for their Android and iPhone devices. Check in tomorrow for Commandment #2!!!
Live, Love, Learn :)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
wwp.supercoolschool.com
Just a quick run through of what the Supercool School platform can do . . . using it as an experimental teaching and learning tool for the Wounded Warrior Project. Check it out:
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Wedding Slideshow Snippets
So I'm getting married on Valentine's Day . . . that's like 6 days from now. Here are some photos that will be on the slideshow. I love technology. Makes things easy.
Live Love Learn as always,
B.
Live Love Learn as always,
B.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Video Games For Learning Pt. 1
So recently I've been digesting James Paul Gee's "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" and I wanted to document some of the principles in it to serve as a reference point for me in my educational projects. Very good info for designers, teachers, system architects, and of course gamers.
Oh last thing, the definition of SEMIOTIC DOMAIN is this "any set of practices that recruits one or more modalities (images, equations, symbols, sounds, graphs, artifacts, etc.) to communicate distinctive types of meanings."
Here are the first 12 principles:
1. Active, Critical Learning Principle: all aspects of the learning environment(including the ways in which the semiotic domain is designed and presented) are set up to encourage active and critical, not passive, learning.
2. Design Principle: learning about and coming to appreciate design and design principles is core to the learning experience.
3. Semiotic Principle: learning about and coming to appreciate interrelations within and across multiple sign systems (images, words, actions, symbols, atifacts, etc.) as a complex system is core to the learning experience.
4. Semiotic Domains Principle: learning involves mastering, at some level, semiotic domains, and being able to participate at some level, in the affinity group or groups connected to them.
5. Metalevel Thinking about Semiotic Domains Principle: learning involves active and critical thinking about the relationships of the semiotic domain being learned to other semiotic domains.
6. "Psychosocial Moratorium" Principle: learners can take risks in a space where real-world consequences are lowered.
7. Committed Learning Principle: learners participate in an extended engagement (lots of effort and practice) as extensions of their real-world identities in relation to a virtual identity to which they feel some commitment and a virtual world that they find compelling.
8. Identity Principle: learning involves taking on and playing with identities in such a way that the learner has real choices (in developing the virtual identity) and ample opportunity to meditate on the relationship between new identities and old ones. There is a tripartite play of identities as learners relate, and reflect on, their multiple real-world identities, a virtual identity, and a projective identity.
9. Self Knowledge Principle: the virtual world is constructed in such a way that learners learn not only about the domain but about themselves and their current and potential capacities.
10. Amplification of Input Principle: for a little input, learners get a lot of output.
11. Achievement Principle: for learners of all levels of skill there are intrinsic rewards from the beginning, customized to each learner's level, effort, and growing mastery and signaling the learner's ongoing achievements.
12. Practice Principle: learners get lots and lots of practice in a context where the practice is not boring (i.e. in a virtual world that is compelling to learners on their own terms and where the learners experience ongoing success). They spend lots of time on task.
So this wraps up the first dozen. I will hopefully be able to use these in my future pursuits and projects in relation to online education, educational gaming, and the like. That is all.
as always continue to Live, Love, and Learn . . .
B
Oh last thing, the definition of SEMIOTIC DOMAIN is this "any set of practices that recruits one or more modalities (images, equations, symbols, sounds, graphs, artifacts, etc.) to communicate distinctive types of meanings."
Here are the first 12 principles:
1. Active, Critical Learning Principle: all aspects of the learning environment(including the ways in which the semiotic domain is designed and presented) are set up to encourage active and critical, not passive, learning.
2. Design Principle: learning about and coming to appreciate design and design principles is core to the learning experience.
3. Semiotic Principle: learning about and coming to appreciate interrelations within and across multiple sign systems (images, words, actions, symbols, atifacts, etc.) as a complex system is core to the learning experience.
4. Semiotic Domains Principle: learning involves mastering, at some level, semiotic domains, and being able to participate at some level, in the affinity group or groups connected to them.
5. Metalevel Thinking about Semiotic Domains Principle: learning involves active and critical thinking about the relationships of the semiotic domain being learned to other semiotic domains.
6. "Psychosocial Moratorium" Principle: learners can take risks in a space where real-world consequences are lowered.
7. Committed Learning Principle: learners participate in an extended engagement (lots of effort and practice) as extensions of their real-world identities in relation to a virtual identity to which they feel some commitment and a virtual world that they find compelling.
8. Identity Principle: learning involves taking on and playing with identities in such a way that the learner has real choices (in developing the virtual identity) and ample opportunity to meditate on the relationship between new identities and old ones. There is a tripartite play of identities as learners relate, and reflect on, their multiple real-world identities, a virtual identity, and a projective identity.
9. Self Knowledge Principle: the virtual world is constructed in such a way that learners learn not only about the domain but about themselves and their current and potential capacities.
10. Amplification of Input Principle: for a little input, learners get a lot of output.
11. Achievement Principle: for learners of all levels of skill there are intrinsic rewards from the beginning, customized to each learner's level, effort, and growing mastery and signaling the learner's ongoing achievements.
12. Practice Principle: learners get lots and lots of practice in a context where the practice is not boring (i.e. in a virtual world that is compelling to learners on their own terms and where the learners experience ongoing success). They spend lots of time on task.
So this wraps up the first dozen. I will hopefully be able to use these in my future pursuits and projects in relation to online education, educational gaming, and the like. That is all.
as always continue to Live, Love, and Learn . . .
B
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