Monday, December 18, 2006
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
Source: Time.com
By CLAUDIA WALLIS, SONJA STEPTOE
There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
Read more from here.
Friday, December 01, 2006
School Matters: The Games Children Play
This programme features two leading academics who support the use of games in education are Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jim Gee, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
They look at a number of UK-based education projects using gaming technology, including an initiative aiming to help children author their own games.
Also examined are gaming addiction and the impact of violent images contained in some games. Mark Griffiths, professor of gambling studies at Nottingham Trent tells us 1 in 20 children play videogames for 30 hours or per week.
Monday, November 27, 2006
USDLA Hall of Fame Inductee, Dr. Robert A. Wisher, Ph.D. is featured on the cover of Military Training Technology magazine!
ADL Advocate: Making the Vision of Learning Anytime, Anywhere, a Reality
Interview with Robert A. Wisher, Ph.D.
Director, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
The article can be found at http://www.military-training-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=1800
Friday, November 24, 2006
Cyber High Schools Start Taking Off (CBS - The Early Show)
Just 10 years ago, schools were working hard to bring a computer to every classroom, but as The Early Show correspondent Debbye Turner discovered, for a growing number of students, the computer has actually become the classroom.
Florida Virtual School headed by USDLA Board Member, Julie Young was mentioned, so check it out.
Visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/24/earlyshow/main2207764.shtml
Monday, April 24, 2006
New USDLA Global Affiliate Chapters
http://www.usdla.org/html/aboutUs/gac.htm