At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.
Last year, March 2010, Jane McGonigal said during her presentation "Gaming can make a better world" on Talks | TED that if we play, the world could be a better place! And schools too!
There are educators that are introducing games on learning. A good number of them! Perhaps not so many as it would be suitable, but they are spreading the word in different learning web blogs, on Facebook or Twitter.
Playing is funny and students can learn with pleasure. As you could hear once more, this time from Ali carr-Chellman. The theme now is about boys in the school.
Last year, March 2010, Jane McGonigal said during her presentation "Gaming can make a better world" on Talks | TED that if we play, the world could be a better place! And schools too!
There are educators that are introducing games on learning. A good number of them! Perhaps not so many as it would be suitable, but they are spreading the word in different learning web blogs, on Facebook or Twitter.
Playing is funny and students can learn with pleasure. As you could hear once more, this time from Ali carr-Chellman. The theme now is about boys in the school.
"Ali Carr-Chellman recent research projects include "Bring Back the Boys," looking at ways gaming can be used to re-engage boys in their elementary education. Another projects asks prisoners and homeless people to think about how to reform schools, bringing new voices to the policy-making table."
She is an instructional designer and author who studies the most effective ways to teach kids and to make changes at school.
She realized as I realized and other innovative educators realize that traditional elementary and secondary classrooms weren't for them, even less for their students.
In part because we are frustrated by the lack of innovation, agility, and readiness to change in traditional schools.
This kind of lack of innovation in the school has motivated me some years ago to be an instructional tutor, author and educator, working on how to change and innovate within schools to make education work better for more kids.
I've been working with doctoral-level students (school teachers) to help produce a next generation of educators with inspired research ideas and methods.
I also teach online courses focused on helping practicing teachers learn how to improve their own instructional practices and how to improve their courses.
Field trips are often an integral part of instructional practices and greatly benefit students’ learning by allowing them to engage with real-world environments.
"Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and 'getting things done' "
Marc Prensky
30.05.2011
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