STEM
The focus of my recent blogs is on MMO games and virtual worlds for learning. If you are involved with this in your work, please leave a comment!
Oakland Blues: Virtual Presevation of Oakland's 7th Street Jazz Scene, More about MMO's
NASA's Promotion of MMO's to Promote STEM learning; Vision-Play's SpaceStationSim; EASe Games
Below, is a reblog of an article from the Washington Post about teaching U.S. elementary school teachers how to teach math. One sad part about not having humanists and interpretive social scientists more involved in these kinds of discussions is that we can see the place where A and B and C should connect but don't . . . For example, in this article, Americans are castigated for our deplorable math scores. Similarly, the point is made that kids do better in math if they start learning certain conceptual apparati early--such as algebraic thinking.
