education

This is a cross-post from my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.

Virtually everything we hear about a globalized, networked, interconnected world emphasizes the importance of collaboration, learning by doing, working together, thinking and talking together. Yet so much of our educational system, our measures for achievement, our strategies for assessment, and our standards of excellence are based on individual accomplishment. Are we really preparing for our future? Can't we all just learn to get along?

You can't stop change.  And I don't want to.

 

Digital Promise Legislation Passes the House of Representatives

"The Future is Now" and, guess what, it's an English Department! Watch the video prepared by the Department of English at Rutgers University on the New Humanities. Chair Richard Miller addresses the question: how do we educate our students for success in a Web 2.0 world?

As many of you know, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg have been working on a project entitled ‘The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age’ that explores the possibilities (and challenges) that have arisen as new technologies change the way we learn.

Some preliminary and radical ideas for an upcoming sabbatical to study new media, social networks, knowledge community formation, and collaborative project-based learning

Free Report: Video Games and Serious Games: Implications for Education

I'm going to take a week's breather from blogging . . . everyone needs a break sometime. Before I go, I am reposting an Op Ed piece I wrote for "Under the Gargoyle," the back page of the Duke Alumni Magazine, July-August 2007.