Updates on the ARG at UNC

Submitted by llchrist on Nov 20, 2009, 11:55 AM

Just wanted to give you all an update with where we are at with the alternate reality game (ARG) at UNC.

WiTTIE: Developments Continue and Participation Begins or The Right Direction, the Wrong Velocity

Submitted by Pbaker on Nov 05, 2009, 04:31 PM

The WiTTIE Team has been hard at work over the last few months.

Overview of the WildLab

Submitted by jaredlamenzo on Nov 04, 2009, 01:59 PM

Observation is the first step towards scientific discovery. With the WildLab iPhone application and associated inquiry-based curriculum, students learn the basics of scientific fieldwork, while using other STEM-related skills.

M-Ubuntu: catalyzing co-learning with mobile phones in South Africa

Submitted by m-ubuntu on Sep 17, 2009, 01:32 PM

The theme is cultural diversity and until now, 6th graders have written earnest but boring reports on South Africa's multicultural population. This year, Thembisile asks her teacher for permission to use her cellphone in the project.  Soon a routine assignment takes on new life as teams of y

MILLEE: Using cellphones to teach English

Submitted by Matthew Kam on Sep 10, 2009, 07:55 PM

Thanks to Mike Cronin at the Pittsburgh Tribune for his great article about MILLEE, one of our 2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media & Learning competition winners. Read an excerpt below.

The Massive Task of Haptics and Empathy

Submitted by slgrant on Aug 25, 2009, 12:19 PM

In my field of information and library science, scholars like Tefko Saracevic have summed the past decades of information explosion into three ideas: information retrieval, relevance, and interaction. It is in this last idea, interaction, where some of the most fascinating problems -- and soluti

Playpower.org and the open-source educational software revolution

Submitted by Derek Lomas on Jun 12, 2009, 02:03 PM

Derek Lomas wants you to join his open-source educational software revolution. Lomas, along with two other partners, founded Playpower.org when they realized educators were lacking a rich, open-source developer community. He has fond memories of games like Lemonade Stand, Oregon Trail, and Math Munchers (and points out that some teachers are still using these game in their classrooms).

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History of Canada: Game-changing Civics Learning

Submitted by JulieBurch on May 29, 2009, 12:00 AM

Thomas S. Axworthy, principal investigator of History Game Canada, writes that, "Canada has a crisis of historical amnesia. We no longer inspire our youth and our newest citizens and immigrants with Canada's national story. No other Western nation does a poorer job of teaching history than Canada." With History Game Canada, Axworthy proposes that digital games have the potential to excite students about history, by letting them create their own country, much like Sir John A. MacDonald did centuries ago.