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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning from Observation

Learning Visions

A study is cited in which researchers looked at brain activity while subjects learned how to build a structure with Tinker Toys. Im no neuroscientist, but these kinds of images get me excited -- seeing which areas of the brain light up. Games for Girls. This job ain't dead yet.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning to Work, Working to Learn

Learning Visions

This go-round, Im at the other end of things: in a much-needed lull between projects, taking a breather. Reading Im still in the midst of The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles et al. Photo credits: Oh boy tinker toys! The last time I posted for this carnival (almost a year ago!) What are you looking at? How do you learn at work?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: The Blog Book Tour - Week Two

Mark Oehlert

Main | Im tired people, so Im only going to say this about 1,000 more times. » September 18, 2007 Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: The Blog Book Tour - Week Two So the pressure is on. Karls book Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning is a great read and I can say that with some authority. 45 – Last paragraph – Yes!

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): GDC Update 2: Starting the day with Raph

Mark Oehlert

| Main | I dont want to go to another conference EVER that does not recycle » February 18, 2008 GDC Update 2: Starting the day with Raph ( BTW - I will go back later and add pics/links/etc to these posts but unbelievably, internet access is wicked spotty here and Im trying to get out what I ca n) So GDC is now a world of summits.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Nothing to do with learning.but Transformers ROCKS!

Mark Oehlert

Im sorry but it just had to be said.if This film is not subtle - cmon, its based on a line of toys - it is unremittingly violent but not in a 300 kind of way. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Happy July 4th - Independence Day In the U.S. Main | Bandwagon Alert!! I got my iPhone!

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

link] March 23-24, 2009 International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications : Environment, Cultural Heritage, Health, Smart Buildings, V-commerce and Education, 1 st , Coventry, United Kingdom. html October 12-13, 2009 European Conference on Game-Based Learning , Graz, Austria. link] net/announcement.asp?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Im not sure how this relates to danah boyds recent blog article on Viewing American class divisions through FaceBook and MySpace. Only two people admitted to any regular game play. I wonder how this would differ if I had been asking young college males about gaming? appears to me that the gaming gender divide is alive and well.

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