Thursday, June 21, 2007

Are we using the technology to it's fullest?

I'm still catching up on my reading and posting, but coincidentally, my first post also works well as a follow-up to one of Tom's earlier posts. It regards building the assessments and evaluations into the learning environment itself.
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3 comments:

tcarroway said...

Thanks for the comments Micah - I am not clear yet on how I feel about the learning and "silent education" / stealth mode. However, I do believe, that like the world of process improvement (business process or software process), education seems to fail for many when we make the focus on the school, the repetitious and unimaginative processes that turn off students who might otherwise really have a desire to learn and excel. So, if we can make the process almost transparent, something that does not need constant attending to in our immersion with content and thinking about the content, it seems as if this would be a good thing. However, the way to make the process, the delivery of the acts and meaning that make up the instruction, transparent requires two basic things. A good design, and an established familiarity with the procedures and tasks and expectations for the process. How do we do this with games and sims? Or can we rely on students just to be plug-and-play because we assume they all have mastered the interactive steps and mindset of gaming?

Man, I always end up asking more questions than I have answers... it's draining sometimes.

tc

June 21, 2007 at 10:39 PM
micah_gideon said...

My feeling is that a game, when implemented properly, will reflect reality in intuitive fashion. So much so that it will seem like an extension of reality itself and not a learning tool/construct. That's my biggest beef with Second Life — the controls and methods of interaction are not intuitive. The methods for building things don't just make sense like they should. Truly, I only blame Second Life for the instability — I don't think the technology is there yet.

By the way, I've responded to a bunch of your other posts as well…

June 21, 2007 at 11:16 PM
micah_gideon said...

I think that Nintendo, with their Wii are making moves in the right directions…

June 21, 2007 at 11:17 PM

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