Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2012

Learning is performance. Learning to play an instrument ultimately results in some form of musical performance. Learning to play an instrument ultimately results in some form of musical performance. Such performances don't have to be public, but often they are. We talk about 'becoming'. Everyone is a genius.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2009

Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Focus on casual video games. Games in a variety of shapes and sizes: Console Games (for the Xbox or Wii) MMORPG (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game): World of War Craft, Club Penguins.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2015

If teachers ascribe great expectations onto their students, those students tend to perform better as a result. When teachers see students as time wasters, and expect less from them, those students tend to under perform. The Pygmalion effect , as it''s known can be beneficial. And there''s the rub. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007 Games vs. Gaming The topic that kept me thinking late last night: the difference between games and gaming; between people who play computer games and so-called gamers. Heres my novice view on the differences between games and gaming: Games are short, finite experiences.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, the DAP won’t eliminate the need entirely for custom eLearning or performance support but it can shoulder most of the training weight. This is a Pendo walkthrough that has the user perform the action. You’ll also want to know what the KPIs (key performance indicators) are so that you can reach them.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

Monday, January 05, 2009 On Games and eLearning As eLearning designers, your goal is (hopefully) to make the learning experience engaging. And the best way to make it fun is to make it a game. Clark Quinn in Learning Predictions for 2009 : I continue to see interest in games, and naturally I’m excited. Yes, yes, yes!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 17, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Video Games, Tire Swings and Learning My almost six-year old son LOVES video and computer games: Wii, Nintendo 64, computer, my iPod Touch. Son was struggling with a certain game for quite a while. Video games. I say GO GAMES! Gaming is life! I struggle with this. I love this story.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2007

Friday, March 30, 2007 Video Games & Retirees Interesting article in todays New York Times by Seth Schiesel about the increasing acceptance of video games among retirees/baby booomers, especially older women. Mary are actually part of a vast and growing community of video-game-playing baby boomers and their parents, especially women.

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If the content you’re recording has its own audio—like the sound effects in a game—you will want to unmute your device so it is captured. If you’re recording a game or app that has both background music and sound effects you should turn off music within the game settings. Turn off in-app music. Free up resources.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

Wednesday, March 07, 2007 Games for the Brain These brain games are from Phillip Lenssen, via Dean at my company who was thinking about how we could use brain teasers or games to get a learner prepped to learn. My favorite game is Counterfeit. Use a game like this instead of a pre-test. Games for Girls.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Lyncconf Games on Flickr The rapid spread of the Coronavirus and the subsequent social lock-downs by many governments has meant that technology has been thrust to the forefront in many of our daily human activities. The stand out offering is the Joe Wicks video which purports to offer PE education to children everywhere.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2019

They can navigate around as if they were in a FPS ( First Person Shooter ) game, and explore every inch of the internal environment of the submarine. Makeshift reality by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Games for Girls.and by girls, I mean women. Image of Torus Trooper -- a game Ive never even heard of -- from yotophoto. Ive been trying to learn about games lately. This week I listened to Brent Shlenkers recent podcast with David Williamson Shaffer author of "How Computer Games Help Children Learn".

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Learning Visions

APRIL 17, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009 Games for the Six and Under Crowd (iPod Touch/iPhone) My kids have discovered my iPod Touch. Ive founds some great games that they love. Ive founds some great games that they love. These are the recent faves: iWriteWords This is a fun little spelling game. Theyre as hooked as I am. He loved it.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 28, 2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3D & Serious Games My company has some experience doing 3D modeling and simulations for government clients, so I found this recent acquisition of this 3D learning company by Lockheed Martin quite interesting. The equation of 3D graphics with "serious games" is something to note. United States License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Playing Angry Birds earlier today made me realise afresh that one of the key strengths of games based learning is the freedom to fail. Games offer a psychologically safe environment within which to learn new things. Ultimately, in trying again, you hone your skills or thinking, and assess your performance against previous ones.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Women, Gaming & the Guild Master Ceiling This post is an addendum to my first review of Karl Kapps book, Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning. Gamer traits are cross-gender traits, because young girls play video games and are growing up in a culture influenced by those games." (p.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2015

Here''s what Wikipedia says (and it''s accurate): In education, ipsative assessment is the practice of assessing present performance against the prior performance of the person being assessed. Ipsative assessment is used in everyday life, and features heavily in physical education and also in computer games. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning Welcome to stop #3 of The Karl Kapp Games, Gadgets, and Gizmos Virtual World Book Tour. My plan failed me and I just started reading Chapter 2: Its in the Game. Cheat Codes & Gaming the System "But to gamers, cheat codes are not cheating.

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Learning with e's

MAY 14, 2015

There are games to be won!" - Theodor Geisel (Dr Suess) Games based learning is a hot subject. Listening to James Paul Gee and Nichola Whitton speaking about video games has me thinking about the impact of games on education. The game psychologically transports them to other places. There are points to be scored.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Second Life and Gaming Poll Results I dont claim to be a researcher, nor can I claim that the results of polls conducted on this site are in the least bit statistically significant. Posted by Cammy Bean at 2:58 PM Labels: games , gaming , second life 5comments: Brent Schlenker said.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 9, 2013

We took part in multi-national games that went on all day, where we played the roles of politicians and generals, as we tried to avert a nuclear war. We produced and performed in musicals such as Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Fiddler on the Roof in the school assembly hall. We learnt to play the games of other countries.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The current UK secondary curriculum is based on a combination of summative (exams) and continuous (project based) forms of assessment, and is thought to be fair because it measures learner performance over a long period of time. But it is still unfair for students who may not have the ability to perform at the expected criterion level.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2012

Speakers included Derek Robertson, Steve Dale, James Langley, Chris Mayoh and Julian Wood, who presented variously on games based learning, e-safeguarding, embedding the iPad across the curriculum, the use of QR codes and mobile devices in education, and how to engage readers with digital texts.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

Digital classrooms will become the place where learning is performed, celebrated and assessed - on large wall screens for all to enjoy. Gamification and games based learning will establish a stronger foothold in classrooms as teachers realise just how powerful self-paced, self-assessed task oriented and problem based learning can be.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 . ► March (11) eLearning Geeks on Spring Break and New Skills for.

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Learning with e's

MAY 9, 2016

School should be a place where children learn, not somewhere they feel pressurised to perform. This is not a game - we should never forget that school is an important stage in the learning journey of individual children. Photo by Jim Champion on Wikimedia Commons Tested to breaking point? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2014

The Web has changed the way I think, because I now expect to be able to do all this, and rely on my connections to perform my various professional roles. So happy birthday to the Web, and may the next 25 years be even more astounding, game breaking and revolutionary. All of the above activities were inconceivable prior to 1989.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

I was invited to speak at the Institute of Learning and Performance annual conference - Learning Live - at St Paul's in London recently, on the subject of Learning Futures, and afterwards talked to Martin Couzins, who recorded the brief video interview below (yes, I know it says 'learning tends'. Unported License. Unported License.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

Back in 2007, I pointed out various aspects of what I was seeing: strategy/strategic and performance are back as topics after dropping way down in 2006 surprisingly trainer is also back, you would think in the age of eLearning 2.0 I have doubts about the validity of these data. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ? eLearning Technology.

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Mindflash

MAY 10, 2012

So ultimately, L&D pros are in a unique position to make a direct and measurable impact on employee retention and performance by rethinking the on-boarding process. Studies have shown that employees who are effectively socialized are more likely to stay with the organization and perform at a high level. Rethinking On-Boarding.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

If possible, allow for more interactivity so learners can try out the simulated software a bit to better understand how to perform a task. It works in multiple-choice tests as well as games, stories and virtual environments. This type of feedback acts as an incentive to continue playing the game and learning.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If we practice education properly, we will see that it's not about getting students to perform to standardised tests that bear no resemblance to reality. Standardised tests allow governments to check on the performance of the school, not on individual learning. I'm at the top of my game now, and I owe most of it to.

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