Tue 31 Jan 2006
Via Boing Boing:
This is a very cool implementation of the Dance-Dance Revolution idea to teach kids about DNA. Not only that, it’s called ‘The Codon Hoedown’. (See this news release.)
I recently had a meeting with a non-profit group I work with, and I was trying to get them to incorporate mySpace into their cirriculum. Why? Because, as the CEO of the group said, ‘it’s where the kids are at.’ If we can have the perspective to adapt our ideas about what counts as learning, creativity, and expression, we can create all kinds of new technologies that engage kids in learning without beating them over the head with it!
February 1st, 2006 at 7:33 pm
This looks cool.
Kids I teach at U Maryland and American (so really young men and women), seem to be into livejournal right now, too. I wonder about the utility of devoting resources to using specific platforms like these if they are going to wind up “uncool” in a year or two. Also, while I’m a huge advocate for using electronic medial to supplement classroom study, I suspect that asking the right questions - the ones that will make them talk- is more important than using the right media.
February 1st, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Maybe the trick is to design teaching tools that are flexible enough to adapt to whatever the current fad is. I agree with you about the right questions, but I’d also say that the right question might be different for different media.