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. [...]
Sell out crowds. Overflow rooms. Young fans looking for autographs after a ‘performance.’ Not things usually associated with a lecturer talking about prime numbers. But such was the case for 2006 Field’s Medal winner Terence Tao. The article Scientist at Work - Terence Tao - Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime in the New York Times gives a profile of this young, talented mathematician, described as a ‘rock star’ and the ‘Mozart of math.’
“You’ve forgotten a lot of things you used to know, haven’t you Dad?”
This astute observation from my son came at the end of an interesting conversation we had about lunar eclipses. We were driving east on I-44 in Southwest Missouri as the sun went down in the rear-view mirror. A short time later, [...]
Both Marc Prensky’s Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning! and Olivia and Kurt Bruner’s Playstation Nation are aimed squarely at parents, and their recommendations to parents about how to handle video games are, not surprisingly, right in line with their personal opinions about video games. Among many other ideas for parents, Prensky recommends that [...]
Video games, Marc Prensky argues, are a conduit for our children to learn in a way that just wasn’t available to previous generations. This comes in large part because the game developers understand what it means to engage the digital natives so that they want to play - and thus learn - more and more. [...]
One of the most challenging things facing many parents today is how to understand their children’s love of all things digital. Marc Prensky has labeled us “old folks” (himself included) as Digital Immigrants, while our children are the Digital Natives. Within the digital nation of those digital natives, nothing is quite so potentially inaccessible [...]
Most discussions of mastery - such as sports, music, drama, writing, etc. - focus on areas outside the realm of day-to-day life. Of course, discussions about the philosophy of mastery stress the importance and value of applying the approach of mastery to the mundane tasks of daily existence. But some things fall into [...]
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