Jeong’s Media Artifact: FaceBook Internet does play a significant role in my life; I use it to understand myself, my communities, and the world around me. The Internet is therefore embedded in the middle of my nurturing experience in everyday…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Current Learning Theories Should Utilize Current Technology
by Mike • • 0 Comments
I have never been a fan of video games. My generation just missed the cut-off for what I will call the “video game revolution.” The only video game I remember playing, as an adult, was Pong and the first incarnation…
What is Jeopardy Brainwashing?
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
The first T.V. show I remember watching as a family was Jeopardy. This was the eighties version of the show, hosted by Alex Trebek. Today, I am not a fan of quiz games in any form. I have no interest…
Literacy Games
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
After considering the latest class chat on rhetorix about gaming and the articles “Learning and Games,”by James Paul Gee and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play,” by Kurt Squire and Shree Durga, I put more score on the…
Looking Backward From a Forward-Moving Edge
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
What is the role of media culture in my life and environment? What media artifact reflects my relationship with the dominant media culture in America? Those questions are as impossible to quantify in one artifact as is the concept of…
Final Paper Proposal: How is the Internet changing the definition of Privacy?
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
How has the definition of privacy changed with the increased use of new digital media, specifically, the Internet? What is it about anonymity that is transforming what people choose to share? What is private and what is public when it…
Center for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens…
My Media Artifact
by Mike • • 1 Comment
My life changed significantly when I purchased my first computer; a Gateway desktop with a fifteen-inch screen and a state-of-the-art micro-processor. It seems like such a long time ago, 1993, and I can’t remember the exact date. The computer was…
OH??? Thats why games that are educational SUCK!
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
James Paul Gee explains that as educators we are trying to reinvent a tool that already works. How many times do people play a game that is really fun at home or with friends but when at school we use…
Play Your Way to Academic Success?
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
Kids love playing games. Computer Age kids love playing computer games. In games, especially highly complex computer games, players must learn, as a matter of course, vast amounts of detailed information about how the game operates and how to interrelate…