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Tag Archives: Learning

Games and learning

27-Jun-08

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“.
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Innovation is good, but innovators are bad…

23-Jun-08

Though I hate to say it, this explains a lot. I don’t know if I buy into it completely, but I think anyone who fits the description of “innovator” given above can probably recount more than one story like this from personal experience.

Hackable training content

13-Jun-08

Nearly 10 years ago now, I was responsible for customer training for a new piece of equipment we had produced. (Actually, I assumed responsibility about 1/2 way through the project.) After training our first customer, I sat down with the training crew to see how we could make the next session better, as I had seen and heard some things that weren’t correct, or could be better.

Silly me.

A(nother) description of knowledge work

31-Mar-08

The paths of knowledge creation

19-Mar-08

Some thoughts on curriculum

19-Mar-08

Harold Jarche has an interesting set of posts discussing the role of curriculum in public school education, and the impact it can/does have on our children. In a post today, Harold explains his issues with public school curriculum:

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