Tony Karrer’s comments to a recent post of mine that discussed the application of a craft work model to knowledge work got me thinking a bit more about the subject. I’ve also been thinking some about the one of the goals of the Work Literacy project, specifically to “help build a foundation of knowledge [...]
Also filed in Knowledge Work, Learning, Mastery, Social Networks, Tools, Web 2.0, Work Literacy, visual thinking
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Tagged Add new tag, competency, Knowlege Work, literacy, Mastery, WorkLiteracy
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I’ve had a strong interest in video games on a personal level for many years (see this page for some of my thoughts). More recently, I’ve become interested on a professional level in the potential for games to be used to support learning and other ’serious’ purposes - hence the name “Serious Games“.
I see [...]
It is a good time to be a virtual musician, especially if your platform of choice comes from Nintendo. This past weekend saw the release of versions of the popular Guitar Hero and Rock Band game franchises for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii, respectively.
Guitar Hero On Tour brings the guitar strumming fun [...]
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Tagged DS, Guitar Hero On Tour, Music, Nintendo, PlayStation 3, Rock Band, virtual, Wii, XBox 360
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At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the future of communications: visual communications.
Today, we are free once more. Paradoxically, now that everything has been reduced to zeros and ones, our only limit is our imagination. What’s interesting is that [...]
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Tagged communications, dave gray, language, literacy, Tools, visual thinking, xplane
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In his foreword to Marc Prensky’s book Digital Game-Based Learning, Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan recounts the following (emphasis is mine):
Early in my life, my mentor explained to me the three paths that lead to the creation of knowledge. The analytical path, where philosophers reflect, meditate, and make sense of objects [...]
Video games like the Guitar Hero franchise and the recently released Rock Band give gamers a chance to become “musicians”, if only in pretend. It was by happy accident (thanks to shuffle mode in iTunes) that I heard a discussion yesterday with NPR music blogger Carrie Brownstein on an (unfortunately unknown to me) NPR [...]
With the holiday shopping season already in high gear here in the U.S, and the annual blitz of advertising - especially for the big ticket items like video games and systems - in full assault mode, many parents find themselves trying to decide what kinds of games they are willing to let their kids play. [...]
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