Mar
18
SITE 2008
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From 1 – 9 March I travelled to Las Vegas to attend the 19th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). With around 1350 delegates representing at least 40 countries, this was one of the best attended and the most international SITE conferences I have attended since my first SITE [...]
Aug
21
Shared limitations of games and classrooms
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Clark Aldrich at The Learning Circuits Blog comments that Computer Games and Classrooms already share one limiting feature, namely that they are both self-referential. People, such as myself, are advocating a time when classrooms borrow more lessons from computer games. But they already share one, not-so-great similarity. They are both self-referential. Doing well within the [...]