Paradigm shifts in teaching and learning aren’t unusual. Just think of the shortcuts calculators, grammar and spell-checkers, and even the World Wide Web introduced. But here is why ChatGPT is different.
Random Saturday post! I wanted to draw your attention to a FREE Shark Week-inspired resource I posted on TeachersPayTeachers, with additional teaching details here.
In an earlier post, I explored how social technology tools (such as Twitter, Wikis, etc.) can be used in educational Alternate Reality Games, designed to engage student learning. In that post I explained that, “ARGs are interactive, networked narratives (dubbed storyscapes) that behave like complex scavenger hunts. They rely on existing real-world environments as their…
“If children can build, play and understand games that work, it’s possible that someday they will understand and design systems that work. And the world is full of complicated systems.” — Sara Corbett, Journalist, New York Times This week, I am pivoting a bit and telling you about my focus of research while pursuing my…
As we settle into this new, bizarre version of normal, let’s take a moment to recognize that nothing in this reality is ideal. This includes how we manage our children’s time and learning. (A bit more screen time than we hoped? No judgement.) So let’s take the pressure off… There’s enough to worry about. Instead,…
sp*rk curiosity 