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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants – or, why I’m an uncool adult
I am not old. I’m 26. By most standards I’m relatively young. I also like to think I’m fairly tech savvy. But good luck trying to convince an 11 year-old either of this. I had an experience on Monday...
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Digital Adventure 2012 – teaching materials, photos, and student videos
This will be a general post about my ESL summer camp engaging Korean elementary students in digital literacy skills. Below you’ll find most of my teaching materials, a number of photos from the camp,...
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The History of Starcraft – using video games to engage ESL students in...
Starcraft launched on March 31, 1998. Nearly one month later I was given the game as a 12th birthday present by my parents. At the time I had no idea that 13 years later I would be using Starcraft to...
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Massively Open Online Conservatism? Conservapedia mixes MOOCs and ideology
I’ve written about Conservapedia, the self described “trustworthy encyclopedia,” before. For those unfamiliar with the site, Conservapedia is a neo-conservative answer to Wikipedia, describing itself...
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Links of the week – teaching and learning edition
Last Friday my partner Beth and I attended the First Annual (if such a thing can exist) Technology in Education Symposium (otherwise known as TIES). At the conference I made some connections with...
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HIST 2401E – 21/11/13 Feudalism: the other f-word
This week we’re discussing a controversial topic among medievalists – feudalism. In my undergraduate studies I had a professor who threatened to fail anyone who used what he referred to as the...
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Gaming and Failure – speech notes from the Digital Kids Symposium
Last Tuesday I gave a workshop at the Digital Kids Symposium discussing with parents why games and failure have important roles in education. The following are my notes from the talk. In them I discuss...
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