Engaging VG in Education

Well, my time is limited today, but I thought I should get a little something up here. My aim for this blog to have a place to explore video games in education. This exploration will include a broad gambit of directions, and my thoughts and questions as they develop. I can see exploring using games that are out there to teach, to video game creation in schools, to what video games could teach us. Hopefully, this will also be a journey for me personally, as I begin to try to develop a meaningful workshop (whatever that may mean) that model concepts during the course of the workshop itself.

I also, hope that everyone can feel free to voice their opinions and perhaps we can all get something useful out of this interchange.

I must also admit, that “blogging” is not something that comes all that natural to me. If anybody was at NECC for the keynote address on the Sunday night, if you can remember the couple of slides that showed the characteristics of the the past several generations . . . I was a true and true member of the one that wasn’t all that social. But alas, it’s not about me, then, is it? It’s about the students, the place where they’re at, the unknown that they are headed towards, and using the tools that are natural to them, to engage them and make education relevant to them. I must thank Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for reminding me that in order to teach the teachers these tools (ie. Blogs) I should be using them myself. This was during a conversation we had during lunch at the High Schools New Face conference .

So I do want to pose a question to start . . . if you know of any blogs that would be related to this idea of video games in education, that I should be reading and linking too, please let me know.

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