Dr. Katie Salen who is a Professor at The Parson's School of Design in New York. Here she talks about gaming as a model for learning and, like John Seely Brown, talks about the most important skill for a 21st century learner. The love of change.
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Interesting. What they are doing is taking 'project based learning' into the 21st century. Great! However, project based learning has all but dissapeared across the country (and certainly where we are) in order to complete all the content required for state testing.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to see inovative, creative, dynamic, cutting edge classrooms, go back 30 years. Go back to the days before standardized testing was everything and no child was left behind because not eveyone had to go to college to be 'sucessful'.