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April 2007

April 11, 2007

How do we hack this two blog thing?

April 11, 2007

My 'other blog' is at elgg, sorry eduspaces, and I am not quite sure what to do with this one so I thought I would point you to any relevant posts over at wrote about the recent Kathy Sierra furore here.some rather boring theoretical stuff on social networkingHere is news of our one year Know and Network project ...

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April 28, 2007

Sex, lies and video games

April 28, 2007

Paul Kearney and Maja Pivec have written this intriguingly titled article in BJET, about the potential for using video games in education    "Sex and violence in video games is a social issue that confronts us all, especially as many commercial games are now being introduced for game-based learning in schools, and as such this paper polls teenage players about ...

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April 29, 2007

Collaborative or Cooperative Learning

April 29, 2007

This very interesting interview with Morten Paulsen  was blogged by Stephen Downes. His work is based on his theory of cooperative freedom. I found this table very interesting"Table 1. Student preferences regarding Learning Partners and privacy  Preferred Privacy Level Want Learning Partners Don't want Learning Partners Sum Percent ...

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