F18 Week Three Agenda

Noteworthy: 

• Field Placements
• Assignment Due  13 September : WordPress ePortfolios 
• Assignment Due  14 September: BlogPost Video Games (Just an initial post) 
• ePortfolio Assessment Checklist
• Readings for Tuesday 18 September:  
  • Kohn, A. (2011) Poor Teaching for Poor Children … in the Name of Reform. Education Week.
  • Richard, G. (2017). Video Games, Gender, Diversity, and Learning as Cultural Practice. Educational Technology, 57(2), 36-43.

Newsworthy:  Open Letter to Ohio Department of Education concerning computer-graded exams | Shaker Heights English teachers.

Reading: Gee, J.P. (2007) Good video games, the human mind, and good learning. pp. 22-44.

Q & A:

• Video game assignment | Teams –>
• Video Games for the Assignment

Discussions:

• Introduction to the Gee reading | a few concepts

1. Simulations
2. Affordances
3. Distributed Intelligence & Off-loading 
4. Forcing our students to learn vs. Dumbing down the learning 
5. Drill & Practice 

Viewing: James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games

In class small groups: 

1. In class small groups: Video Games and Learning Principles 
2. Explore some of these games:

• Phet Balance Simulation  We did start to mess around with Phet Balancing simulation.
• The My Sust House games 
• Play Player 2 here
• Drill & Practice (These are not video games; they are lesson reviews)
  • Funbrain Math Baseball
  • History Games Online