Students could do a lot of good inside a normal classrooms if they were allowed to do real-world good. This opportunity is all too uncommon, specifically in college.

Young people actually are very involved in civic opportunities. I was just watching a TEDx about this. However, it is in a different way than the older generation. Older people may go out and volunteer while younger people, specifically GenX are more likely to use the computer to get to the root of the problem by researching ways to find food or raising money online or finding other ways to help that are new and different because, clearly, the current ways are not working.

This is so old!

remixing

dml 3!!! participatory storytelling is great idea and works really well with digital media. However, it also works here even better as a means to participate in a political subject and tell the stories of those involved.

The use of memes has been very important in the past couple years in political activism.

In a couple years, children won't be experts. When, in history were children better at something than adults? It happens very little. This generation may be the first generation of adults truly good at technology but some of them will be true experts in their future and some will know very little about technology. Just enough to get by.

These are authors we have read that are being quoted!

connected civics

originally, "what would Jesus do?"

cultural reappropriation

It is important to have both physical models and digital models as well as other ideas brought into reality through many different means of transmedia navigation.

actually. That is what life is. It is the limitation of time, space and resources. Creativity, problem-solving, design are all reactions to a limitation of one or all of the above.

Actually, I believe that is why Minecraft is so popular. They actually limited what kids could do by making the blocks only square and only a certain dimension. Therefore creating a problem to work around. This has created better designs not worse.

To not have a limitation of time, space or resources makes a game or anything meaningless and no fun because humans love to problem-solve.

in book language, 'historical fiction'

I had to look up Mahjong. I wish you could just click on it and it would tell you what it was.

I have actually played Mahjong quite a few times. I never knew it used to be a physical game.

love this quote

exactly what I was thinking. This struggle isn't new to teaching. Curriculum and textbooks have always been hard to pick.

This keeps being mentioned in many of the articles.

Is this necessary? Teachers don't fill out workbooks completely and they sometimes don't even read the whole textbooks the whole way through. But if you don't understand games and haven't really played them it is really necessary, for sure. Hopefully, they find it fun!

I wonder which one the author likes better?

What happens if I like Hondas and Macs? :-P

Good analogy, nonetheless

assumption of audience

balanced according to who?

Hmmm. That seems a little bit presumptive.

what is ELA?

reasons of nostalgia. I am not sure I have heard of this before and really understand what it means?

wonderful quote!

I am really curious about this number

Love the stats here. They picked some good people

I love how it connects to articles. Very interactive. However, it needs to do it in another tab!

REVIT

rote memory

Profoundly important. "TEACHERS NEED TIME." The single most important thing. If teachers had time to plan instead of grade my mom, an elementary school teacher, would be able to spend her time not on worthless test scores but actually planning out games for them to learn with.

situating a game inside a curricular sequence. What if you situate a curricular sequence inside a game?

Absolutely. I am going to keep this quote. i can imagine pinning something like this on Pinterest.

Absolutely. A key part to people feeling like they make an impact is helping others.

why sustainable?

This is scientifically proven to really help people learn. This is my favorite part of digital learning. I get to know if I am right, right away.

hone” means “to sharpen or make more acute,” as in honing a talent. ... In verb form, “home” (as in “to home in on”) means “to move or be aimed toward a destination or target with great accuracy.”

another useful part of this! and an 'across-subject' application to real life.

It is not about what students can do with technology when they are sufficiently motivated. This is kind of insulting. It is simply about how students get excited about solving real world problems and can tell a group of adults about it more formally.

Love it! so important. That also saves time.

That is how it normally is on the field/job too. That is good

It is really hard knowing what teachers want you to look at when you go to a real site.

it doesn't matter if it is worksheet heavy. They actually write down stuff in "worksheets" in the real field. That is all that matters to the students. I loved worksheets, by the way.

key point.

Why do you have to have a job?

why only 2 weeks?

Level of discourse outside of school I think it has far surpassed that in school. However, I don't discount the fact that it might be because of school and what school has taught us that we are able to have this discourse.

People probably choose that game because they think like that. Rather than people thinking like that because they play the game. I can imagine bringing this into schools and suddenly we wonder why some people hate it and people aren't doing well. Personal freedom of choice.

which might mean googling it which is ok. And spending 30 whole seconds to find the answers which, remarkably my mom doesn't usually think to do but my age-group will.

What is the goal in all of this? I think this is. That we would help students learn about the outside world.

This is a strong jump with no context that because children are disaffiliating --> they need more digital teaching in schools

Teacher's develop criteria based on wisdom and their years of knowledge. However, the students don't know where they are coming from or why, often. The teacher's want them to get certain things from texts or media. However, the students may get semething entirely different out of it.

what we could not describe but through stories or real spaces before can now be encountered together in a reality that is not real but experienced by many.

so true. What adults do vs. what kids do is very separated. Even what college students do in school vs. what is in the career field is very separated. The on-campus buildings going up could be designed and built by architecture students who are already doing hundreds of hours of design work per semester. However, they hire outside the state. On the flip-side, school gives us a more rounded education that what we may get from doing one real project and it gives teacher's more flexibility.

I will often do math problems in my mind or things on paper and there is a chasm between doing the problem and getting the correct information and what that information actually means to me. It is that chasm that actually leads to critical thinking which he is thankfully, trying to teach here.

editing problem. word should not be in here

Key to every case of learning. Is this interesting to me? Will I ever use this again, except in school? Is this the best way to get this done? Is there a better way of doing this? Why use more energy when the information will never be useful again? But this paragraph speaks even further of students feeling like they are valued.

KEYWORDS!

I don't play video games. This was very interesting to me and makes sense. It sounds like this kind of reading that is complex, technical and situational can be educational apparently and useful to real life.

The simple act of empowering the students to decide which information they are "in charge of learning" almost will make them excited to learn it.

Interesting to end with a bunch of questions.

nothing is new under the sun. Games have always been around.

so that? why so that? being finished doesn't make it able to be given away.

I disagree. I think what is new is the games. People are the same. A hundred years ago kids would've enjoyed this too but they didn't have the games

reflection in action is actually a really good definition of learning

this is true of any game, video, board game, card game.

Can we correlate these moments of can i try and can I save it to normal non-video game learning?

And on the part of teaching or demonstrating the design

key point.

They make playing a video game sound hard and specific to certain people. Any kid can learn how. Any normal kid can learn how to play one.

Why do you have to teach players? They are already being taught.

Transmedia navigation

important point.

What is a digital kid?

This sentence doesn't make sense to me.

video games excel at this

Sounds like it could come from our New Literacies textbook

I am actually not that interested in the history. I really want to know how we can incorporate this into the classroom and still keep good learning along with all the good parts of video games like cooperation with others, individual achievement, personal discipline, online discussion, online participation, online answer giving and taking.

*Behind. When schools are actually relying on outside sources like video games to teach the children and they don't know it :-)

This is good and right that we should make things more accessible. I just hope it won't become a rule that all video games have to have certain strict accessibility requirements. As people do follow and make things more accessible they should be rewarded and I am glad other groups of people were able to use this!

I wonder why he chose poverty and wealth to describe this. So, he wants depth not a lot of knowledge over a lot of categories. And yet he still lists all those people from all those different fields

Best? really? I don't think that is the best word to use in this context.

love this writing style

The author of our textbook!

Grammar. LESS WELL REPRESENTED? REALLY?

choice of words?

Sure they have plenty of on-field experience which is great but let's not discount the fact that video game designers do look at science and use academic science to do their work. They aren't simply uneducated.

Aren't thing like this proven, for older people, not just to be life enhancing but life prolonging a great helper of preventing mental deterioration.

The author just generalized plasma physicists. How did she know what they are usually like? Had she met many before?

I sympathize with the kid. Good job, kid, for charging your parent a dollar. This is why kids really don't want their parent to play video games with them. However, I don't agree with parents not being a part of their children's video game life. On the child's side, however, you probably have this complex of the child knowing they are in charge of this world of video games and likely the parent will never know what is going on there. It gives them power and they know it.

that is definitely not the usual age-group video games appeal to. My Grandma is a baby-boomer. They aren't middle-aged. Just saying.

Social achievement or even social dissociation is a big part of reading or doing any hobby. Reading is just one of those things people really know something about because everyone can read.

this argument is very important in how people think about political figures.

Bias is very strong. Therefore, what I think he is pretty much saying is that everyone has a bias going into anything.

at first it sounded like he would be very negative towards groups and maybe brainwashing. However, I totally agree that

That is very important to note, as it can elicit creativity from not having a linear progression. As such, students may also see how a linear progression might help. They should also have some experience with step-by-step at some point in their education

Outside the classroom experiences shaped inside the classroom experiences. Which begs the question, what if some of the children don't have access to video games? Is this bad, at all? Or is it good?

The type of learning encourages having a specialty, even in elementary school.

There was still very much direction as to what the children would look at

Strikingly similar to: "Unschooling" which is defined as "encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, believing that the more personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood and therefore useful it is to the child."

The difference between the two is the "deliberation and shared decision-making". The childrens' voice together supersedes the teachers. And should it? But the individual, if not in agreement with their peers, might not be heard.

With unschooling, the learning is very individualized and can be without exterior perspective.

This is a skill, I feel is introduced with age, I didn't really know it could be taught

I don't get why initiatives no longer need to happen?

When you decide to be creative there are almost 3 ways of doing so. The first is 3d play or model-making, the second is analog (usually on paper) and the fourth is digital. All important parts of a child's education.

I actually agree, as my mom is an elementary school teacher. She is a wonderful teacher but spends the majority of all her time grading, dealing with the politics of fellow teachers, and putting in stats, paperwork, making and grading tests. The children would learn far more if she was able to do the job of actually teaching rather than all the other stuff.

Do you think this author is for Common Core because they keep pushing "progress" and blames "conservatism".

Isn't this period on the wrong side of the parenthesis?

Explicit Connections! So far it doesn't sound like a good idea to talk about non-mathematical things outside the classroom.

Thank you for this acknowledgement! It can be really frustrating to try and do textbooks or quizzes on a small screen or even a computer screen when it is half/quarter the size it would be on paper.

key words but how do you define the personal growth within a classroom to that which should not be within a classroom?

This writing style may be easier to read but it takes way more words to get across the same concept as a well-written paper. This paragraph isn't necessary.

Trying to make education applicable to life and future. That is a high ideal. Sometimes what is actually applicable doesn't seem like it to the student, as it is not directly applicable but indirectly.

There are many different ways of exploring educational spaces with mobile devices. I am interested in what they mean here. There is being able to scroll and look around and click while still staying in the classroom and there is going out into the field and being able to click or scroll in using your device while you are at the educational space. I am curious to see what they refer to here.

We strong is a literacy that only certain people might understand.

There is a world of bars, hooks, bridges out there. These terms mean something very specific to the world of music, terms that are used and defined for music. This is certainly a literacy, one I don't quite understand.

The reason people retract is because later they feel differently. So, is he essentially saying he won't ever be wrong? or he doesn't care if he is wrong? or even if people say he is wrong he was being true to himself so he won't apologize? Is this the idea that feelings can't be wrong?