I was born before I should have been. I was born just in time to miss inclusion into the digital native generation. Surfing the internet wasn’t a common household activity when I was in high-school. Word-processing was not a part of…
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Learning through Games . . .
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
Both articles, “Learning and Games” and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play” are built upon the statement “video games are virtual experiences centered on problem solving, they recruit learning and mastery as a form of pleasure” (Gee, 16).…
Media Artifact Exercise – The Smart Phone
by chayden • • 0 Comments
I remember watching old episodes of “Get Smart” where the bumbling agent Maxwell Smart would answer telephone calls from his shoe. I recall thinking to myself, “Wow! How amazing would that be if you could call anyone, at anytime, in…
Media Artifact Exercise
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
For this exercise, I was experiencing difficulty selecting a specific artifact from the list of examples Dr. De Vries provides. However, out of this minor frustration, I discovered a way to analyze and explore the entirety of artifacts by focusing…
Jeong’s Media Artifact: FaceBook
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
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…
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…