Tag: week 14
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Mistaking Interest for Ability: An Annotation
Steinkuelher (2010) makes a case for increasing student choice in the classroom. Steinkuelher prefaces this summary of an extended research project with the observation that secondary students exist in a “complex information ecology,” and that video games are a small part of that larger picture. Gaming is first described as a “narrative space that the…
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Usable Assumptions for EdTech Research: An Annotation
According to Dede (2011), reliable and valid research on educational games should be based on five assumptions: usable knowledge, collective research, what works when and for whom, an expansion beyond comparing traditional practice to game implementation and scalability. Dede states that in addition to building theories, researchers should share the new knowledge in a way…
Cultivating Creative Thought 