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Ed Hitchcock replied to Or-Tal Kiriati's discussion 'The Online Games in Education Unconference'

I have been helping out a bit with a dedicated biology learning game called Genomics Digital Lab (https://genomicsdigitallab.com/), which is rather specialized, but very cool.

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The Online Games in Education Unconference

As if I am not busy enough, I found myself co-organizing this event, an "unconference" dealing with online games in education. While I am looking for contents to present to prospective participants - I found this link - well actually 2 links, and ...

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Any members interested in Israel-based event to discuss online games place in education?

I am trying to plan such an event with game developers, teachers and educators and students. Aimed at exploring the different perspectives on this topic. Even if you can't participate (thought it's great to visit Israel this time of the year) - I'...

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Or-Tal Kiriati replied to Daniel Kam's discussion 'Concept-Based History Classroom'

WOW!! That's great!! I'll pass it on! Wonder if.. well, how, can you create immersive games for modern history or for such events like those Ed mentioned in his comment here.

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Or-Tal Kiriati replied to Daniel Kam's discussion 'Concept-Based History Classroom'

I also think about ARGs. These can also be very powerful. Look at this link : http://www.thelostring.com/index.html

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Or-Tal Kiriati replied to Daniel Kam's discussion 'Concept-Based History Classroom'

Hi Ed, been missing this energetic, imaginative writing of yours. History is one of my personal favorite topics, yet I have a bad memory for facts. It's easier for me to remember the processes or consequences. What you wrote is so true, though, a...

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Inviting you to read and comment - Kids and Social networks - how young is too young?

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Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing

I volunteer my knowledge of the net and expertise in communications to the school my kids are attending.
We just recently managed to bring the site up - it's a Hebrew site - and it's on www.hillels.info.

About Me:

A communications strategist, working mainly with Hi Tech startups and entrepreneurs. I am working on the development of my own startup, aimed at improving learning skills, targeted mainly at the ages of 8-15.

For my consultancy's web site visit: http://lemino.wordpress.com/

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The Online Games in Education Unconference
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Concept-Based History Classroom

WOW!! That's great!! I'll pass it on! Wonder if.. well, how, can you create immersive games for modern history or for such events like those Ed mentioned in his comment here.

Tagged: standards, history, curriculum, concept-based

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Concept-Based History Classroom

I also think about ARGs. These can also be very powerful. Look at this link : http://www.thelostring.com/index.html

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To be in (the classroom) and feel out (of the classroom) for getting on (course)

My 7 year old really did not want the summer vacation to end. He has no interest in school. His 2-3 good friends come over and he goes over, so he doesn't need school to meet with them. He keeps complaining about how boring it is in the classroom and how he doesn't want to do all these boring things like to color, cut or glue. Not to mention read or write.

Considering how smart he is this is very sad.

We are talking about a child who knew all the alphabet by the age of 18 months... Yes, this w… Continue

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School Work Week - Copied from my blog

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3 kids at school. A new and promising school year. Some thoughts to start with.

Kid #1 will spend 38 hours at school, 5 days a week, an average of 7.6 hours per day, of those 8 breaks adding up to one hour recess time. She will be studying, if I am not mistaken, 12 or 13 topics. She goes on to study math in an afternoon program for additional 3.5 hours. She is 1… Continue

Posted on September 8, 2009 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

Games are the new School

Original post here and I welcome your comments.
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Games development is slowly becoming a central and one of the largest global industries. Right after our basic human needs, where satisfaction and esteem start, and self-actualization follows, right there you will find games. It’s not news that games promise entertainment, and looking at cubs playing you can easily deduct the relationship between play and development, bu… Continue

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 5:02am — 2 Comments

Facebook Therapy for Teens

My latest blog post is titled "Facebook Therapy for Teens.
You are invited to comment here - or there.

It starts with "I have a privilege. I am connected to so many young people, my kids age, around the world, and basically invited to peek into their lives. I am not involved. I dare not speak. But I look and listen and try to grasp their reality. I have an opportunity my parents never had."
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A facilitator or a teacher?

Which is it? A learning facilitator or a teacher? Which of those would better serve the future of education? The future of today’s students? ....

My full blog post is here:
http://ortals.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/facilitatorteacher/

and it is following the blog post by our member, WMChamberlain here : http://attheteachersde… Continue

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At 10:58am on November 17, 2009, Kevin said…: Things are good here good things are happening. How are things in your sphere?

At 6:37am on November 4, 2009, Connie Weber said…: Hi Or-Tal,
Let's get started with a forum on suggestions for live-talk topics. If you get time, can you put it up? Also, maybe you can figure out the time of week and time of day that could work... Feeling up to it? (Scheduling is one of my least favorite activities, and I'm not all that good at it.) Hey, I just thought of something--a doodle poll would be good for voting on days/times. Do you think so?
And you and I need to get trained in use of Elluminate. All we have to do is watch a video that Steve put up. We can practice, too! (Oh yes, another new and great learning tool!)
Anyhow, off to lesson plans--just scrambling to keep up with all I've got to learn for the new math program!

At 3:15pm on November 2, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Ha ha, I just saw your note about the widget: I thought maybe you had put it there a couple weeks ago and I had not even noticed! Anyway, thanks for the information there in the email you sent around. It might be good to put that up as a blog post or a forum for people who are curious about it; I didn't realize that I didn't even need a full-blown meebo log-on if I did want to participate in a chat. :-)

At 11:41am on November 2, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Hi Or-Tal! I just wanted to say that the Meebo chat widget is really nice. I'm not someone who uses chat so I didn't create a Meebo account in order to use it- but the widget is really nicely designed, unobtrusive, and looks like it is a really efficient little chat engine. Nice!

At 8:21am on November 1, 2009, Connie Weber said…: Good--I really want to do this. Steve Hargadon has offered us use of Elluminate for LIVE Fireside discussions. Let's think of topics for beginning... What would make a good live conversation, bringing a lot of people in?

At 5:12am on November 1, 2009, Connie Weber said…: Hi Or-Tal,
You know how we should all meet face-to-face? How about this: we all meet in an Elluminate session... or several of them. I should probably put up another post about the idea. I think we could have a lot of fun in an Elluminate session. (You looked into it at one point at said timing would be just crazy--because of all of our time zones. What did you find out? Did you find any "middle ground" in time?)
Great discussions going on!

Connie

At 10:30am on October 30, 2009, Ed Hitchcock said…: Hi Or-Tal, this year I am teaching 11, 12, and AP Physics, as well as a 9 Science. In most Canadian provinces science in 9 and 10 is a survey course, a sample-pack of Bio, Chem, Physics, and Earth and Space. The separate disciplines are taught as individual courses in 11 and 12, and AP is offered as an enriched course, for those looking for a challenge.

At 5:55pm on October 17, 2009, Eemah Martha said…: Shalom Or-Tal, thank you for the welcome. Wow, your specialty areas sound so cutting edge :) I do look forward to fellowshipping and gaining wisdom here .

At 7:55am on October 16, 2009, Fiona Stewart said…: Thank you for the welcome.

I have struggled with my personal philosophy for many years. Now as a teacher I find the complex relationship between my classroom reality and what I believe a delicate balance. I feel inspired now, having just returned from a conference on the "Circle of Courage".

At 8:42am on September 29, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Hi Or-Tal, there's an orally-based online Latin course done by podcast which is really great for truly learning Latin (rather than just a crash course in Latin-to-English translation, which is what most of the courses are) - it's a wonderful fellow in London who produces this; he's actually a Hebrew teacher, who decided to teach himself Latin a few years ago, and he's made such a huge contribution by sharing this course:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com/

The best textbook by far is the all-Latin textbook by Oerberg: Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. I believe the publishers were launching some kind of online course using Moodle to go with that... but when it comes to online courses, the Latin world comes up pretty short. Anyway, here is information about the textbook (it is TRULY excellent: not a word of English in the book):
http://www.pullins.com/txt/LinguaLatina.htm

I see Ian mentioned the Tar Heel Readers! There is a lot of fun stuff there now, too!
http://tarheelreader.org/tag/latin/

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