Essential Question:
What does the way you play have to do with embracing change and how does this impact you as a professional?
Dates to Save:
Twitter Focus Session #ETLEAD
Thursday at 4:30 AKST hosts: Nicole and Meagan!
Reading:
Chapter Three: A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Available:http://www.amazon.com/New-Culture-Learning-Cultivating-ebook/dp/B004RZH0BG/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Take the Bartle test of gamer psychology
Here’s my gamer profile:
Watch Two Videos from the Gamifi-ED OOC Community
Assignment:
Beginning Wednesday, check http://gamifi-ed.wikispaces.com/Workflow#teacher_rev
Sign up to review at least five games for which students are requesting teacher review.
Put your name and the game you are reviewing on the Google Doc. Each game should be reviewed by only one person. You’ll review the game using the rubric you all created. I will be creating a template and a webinar to assist with this.
About the Week: Last year, I had the privilege of presenting with Dr. Chip Donahue, a Fellow at the Fred Rogers Institute, and the chair of the committee that wrote the Fred Rogers Institute Position Paper on Technology in Early Childhood Education. His position on using technology in early childhood was very interesting and was counterintuitive to many participants of the Alaska Association for the Education of Young Children group. He echoed many of the concepts we are encountering in our text, and emphasized the importance of play – and the reality that technology is just one more tool to encourage play in the early childhood classroom. When teachers asked how we might keep up when technology evolves so quickly, Dr. Donahue responded that we should be playing with technology as well.
It is interesting that once we pass a certain stage in life we may not feel good about “play”; however, play is vital to maintaining well being – and playing with technology may seem like a waste of time; however, it may also assist us in building important understandings and skills in a technology-rich world. It’s important to set aside a little time for play and to remember that in play there is no failure or success – no great stakes for making certain we do it “right”. In play we explore, adapt and develop.
As you read this week, consider the way that you play and the role technology may (or may not) be a part of your (or your students’) “play” routine. Think about your Bartle gaming type. Do you think this could have implications for gaming in the classroom? If so, what?
Due Friday:
Create your Week Seven Blog, responding to the Essential Question. You should add at least 3 resources from your own research to the blog posting.
Use Twitter to share your blog address with the #ETLEAD community.
Due Sunday:
Comment on the blogs of others.
Create a blog entry outlining the way that you contributed to the learning of others, and the impact of your interaction with others through social media (Twitter, blog responses) on your learning.
Submit the URL for your Blog Postings to Livetext on Sunday.
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