Recently I got an email from ‘Sean, a fellow learning theory/tool fiend… I’m also a first year student at Harvard Medical School but I just launched my own tech-heavy learning project on the side
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Excel Everest
Jul 19
I bumped into Martin Baker from LM Matters at the excellent Learning Pool Public Sector Learning Conference this week.
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Harvard ManageMentor goes social
Games lessons
Sep 8
This week’s Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school. The article, Games Lessons , describes how Katie Salen, a games designer and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, in New York, has taken the initiative in setting up Quest to Learn , “a new, taxpayer-funded school which is about to open its doors to pupils who will never suffer the indignity of snoring through double French but will, rather, spend their entire days playing games.” Not any old games of course, but ’serious games’ which encourage children to explore concepts and issues while engaged in a series of challenges
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