To follow up on my blog ‘In defence of books’, for those of you going off on a summer break, here’s some book suggestions, since I’ve decided that there is a future for books. Each one of these involves a character who uses the Internet (or its future form), usually illegally, but for good [...]
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From Natasha Boskic: Serious games in elementary and high schools Goldman, T. (2010). Miyamoto Focusing on Getting DS into Schools. The Escapist Magazine, 21 Mar 2010. With the DS already being used in places like museums, galleries, and aquariums, Miyamoto told reporters about Nintendo’s plan to roll the system out “in junior high and [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7 An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the University of Central Florida’s college of education to use avatars of students, based on four main adolescent student personality types, to train pre-service teachers. The avatars are not automated, [...] The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) offers a range of applied and academic programs that span the spectrum of safety – from prevention to response and recovery. The JIBC offers Canada’s only Bachelor’s Degree in Fire and Safety Studies, which had 80 students enrolled from across Canada and other countries in 2007/08. [...] Galt, V. (2010) How to bake agility into corporate DNA Globe and Mail, May 20 In my blog on Six Priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010 I wrote: Canada is a leader in mobile technology (Research in Motion, Nortel’s merger with Avaya, etc.), the Canadian mobile networks have just been opened up [...] |
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