The Nintendo Wii is an excellent gaming devise that is similar to no other. The Nintendo Wii was designed to target a broad population with the aim that the Wii is for everyone http://www.nintendo.com/wii/what). The wii is not your typical gaming devise where sitting on a sofa and twiddling your thumbs is all that is required. No, the Wii involves a new form of player interaction. Using a remote sensor the wii tracks the user’s movements making it an active gaming experience.
Many schools are beginning to see consoles for their positive aspects rather than as a thing that makes children lazy. By bringing them into schools it seems the Wii has become a useful educational tool. But how educational can a game console be? What are your thoughts on this matter?
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Better than textbooks?
Could virtual museums be the end of textbooks?
One of the biggest challenges teachers face today is using technology to enhance student learning. A good way to do this is by digitalizing textbooks.
Virtual museums provide a rich collection of primary source materials, in the form oral, visual, and written information. The information is also accurate and detailed.
Using virtual museums in the classroom will make learning more hands on. Not only can pupils use virtual museums as a means of research but they can also design their own virtual museum using information they have gathered. This is an excellent idea for class projects and provides students with the opportunity to design and organize their own leaning.
I stumbled across a link that I felt reinforced the idea of virtual museums leading to the end of textbooks. The link leads to a presentation on the Discovery Channel website and provides not only an interesting account of how humans evolved (something all students learn at school) but more importantly it provides an up-to-date account of what is now believed to be the case. This is a huge advantage over textbooks as they can only provide information that was found to be accurate at the time of being published.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?campaign=dsc-px09-1-bbc006
One of the biggest challenges teachers face today is using technology to enhance student learning. A good way to do this is by digitalizing textbooks.
Virtual museums provide a rich collection of primary source materials, in the form oral, visual, and written information. The information is also accurate and detailed.
Using virtual museums in the classroom will make learning more hands on. Not only can pupils use virtual museums as a means of research but they can also design their own virtual museum using information they have gathered. This is an excellent idea for class projects and provides students with the opportunity to design and organize their own leaning.
I stumbled across a link that I felt reinforced the idea of virtual museums leading to the end of textbooks. The link leads to a presentation on the Discovery Channel website and provides not only an interesting account of how humans evolved (something all students learn at school) but more importantly it provides an up-to-date account of what is now believed to be the case. This is a huge advantage over textbooks as they can only provide information that was found to be accurate at the time of being published.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?campaign=dsc-px09-1-bbc006
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