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Speaking at Warren Buckleitner’s Dust or Magic conference a few weeks ago, Caroline Hu Flexer talks about how her company Duck Duck Moose created an Apple Staff Favorite iPhone Appfrom a nursery rhyme and how a 2 year old inspired some of their best work. In their brief existence, Duck Duck Moose has developed [...]
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Recently Google, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, MacArthur, and Common Sense Media started a promising new blog called Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age, inviting Scott Traylor (CEO/founder of 360Kid), Lisa Guernsey (author and director at New America Foundation), James Paul Gee (serious game advocate, author and professor at Arizona State) and Gary Knell [...]
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As reported in the New York Times’ Technology Bits blog: “Rick Goodman, who developed the popular real-time strategy game Age of Empires, is now focusing on a virtual world where, instead of re-enacting historical battles, Chinese children can learn English. Alex Wang, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said the idea grew out of [...]
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The servers were too busy to accommodate me by the time I tried to log on to the Woodrow Wilson Center’s conference server last week, but not too jammed to download the slides and white paper from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Children’s Television Workshop that were being presented and are linked below.
The Cliff [...]
As you know I’m a strong proponent of using games for learning, but sometimes explaining how and why these two realms come together is difficult. In this amusing video James Portnow and Daniel Floyd discuss how tangential learning occurs in games and how designers can exploit this to intentionally embed content and concepts. It’s based [...]
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Responding to the state’s budget crisis, California’s Governor Schwarzenegger wants to save money by cutting out printed textbooks, asserting the state’s tech-savvy youngsters will quickly adapt to learning online. I think he’s right, but is he dead right?
Britian’s Sky News quotes Schwarzenegger as saying that “Today, our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded [...]
Beginning this September New York City will be home to Quest to Learn, one of the most innovative 6-12th grade public schools in the country, that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st century skills and literacies.
Created in collaboration with New Visions for Public Schools and the Institute of Play, Q2L [...]
Many video games take place in a fantastically violent, post-apocalyptic landscape, but are these games adequately preparing kids for the future? Listen in as Clifford Baynes and his colleagues tackle the issue head on.
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?
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Our friend Warren Buckleitner, Editor of Children’s Technology of Review (www.childrenssoftware.com), gives an impromptu brain dump of Toy Fair ‘09. On his mind: the explosion of virtual world-real toy hybrids (Webkinz Jr. and others); JAKKS Pacific “TV toys”; something arguably creepy from Irwin Toy; and iPhone Apps from Hasbro.
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