“The new version of the Padagogy Wheel tackles a major question that is lurking in the back of everyone’s mind. If it’s not … it should be. It’s about the problem of motivation in education. How do we motivate students, teachers, parents, and everyone else to get excited about learning? How do you stay motivated? What works and what doesn’t?” Jeff Dunn: Editor […]
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Simulations … the New Instructional Design
As a kid, my ultimate Christmas present was a Davy Crockett coonskin hat, the ones with the tails, remember? 🙂 At the end of 2012 when I leant about a conference being held in a hotel across the road from the Alamo in Texas I have to confess I thought it was the coolest location […]
Immersive Learning … a Nine-Year Journey
[google-translator] “Learning (and teaching, such as it is) is not a process of communication, but rather, a process of immersion. Put loosely, it suggests the idea of teaching not by telling or even demonstrating but rather through the creation (or identification) of an environment into which a learner is immersed”. Stephen Downes (July 1 2006) […]