MSC models a civic platform whereby contingent formations of media, information, and people open pathways of interest-driven priorities, reflecting and advancing the well-being of Michigan’s students
I don't know what to say here, but I feel like this might be important?
As proposals are authored, so too are they discussed and revised. Each section of a proposal—the pre-ambulatory clauses (“Whereas…”), operative clauses (“Be it resolved…”), and consultation clauses (supporting opinions from experts)—is iteratively refined until the final voting phase begins (figure 1.3).
Probably a reference to continually improving an idea so it can pass, will require collaboration and feedback from all parties, including those that will be affected by the plan.
ike a babysitter that provides parents or teachers with an hour or two of peace and quiet—that justifying its use becomes more complicated.
I really like this quote, because it explains one of the greatest misunderstandings between older literacies and games. It explains that technology CAN also be used as solely entertainment, but is sometimes not considered to be an educational tool
The language of the media is replete with references to the dev
This is a quote that I hear often from the media, and I believe the most of the time this belief is dramatized to an extreme.
However,you cannot play a game if you cannot learn it.
Another example of self motivation being required for learning. If you are not able to to get into a game, then you won't be able to learn or play the game to it's fullest.
In the world of physics, as an academic area, if you have pushed yourstalled car until you are dripping with sweat but the car has not budged, youhave done no “work” (given how physicists use this word), but in the world of“everyday” people, people not attempting at the moment to be physicists ordo physics, you have worked very hard indeed. Neither meaning is right orwrong.
Example of the previous quote, of how an everyday person sees a problem differently to a physicist.
We humans have goals and purposes, and for some goals and purposessome groups’ ways of reading and thinking work better than do others.
I like this quote, as it expresses that people have different strengths due to their diversity, and sometimes even think about the same thing in different ways.
Almost all experiments purporting to implement progressive education have been disappointing because they simply did not go far enough in making the student the subject of the process rather than the object”
Need to come up with a better version of a pull learning environment
Preserve diversity
Technology is not reserved to any particular group of people. So contacts with mobile devices will be grand
Educators seek to free ideas that have been isolated through disciplinary walls and rigidly defined roles. They use MML to push back on the traditional boundaries of School to connect learning to the real world
Using technology allows for users to experience things in a different way and view far more different perspectives of life.
12Finally, the best reason for more stories is quite simply that they are inspirin
More stories makes the concept more believable and some resonate better than others
But for me to actually feel an idea, it has to come from me. And a lot of times, I have to block out different needs and wants just for my own selfish reasons.
I understand the statement above, you can't just force someone to have a creative burst, if the individual can't relate to it, they will have difficulty even trying to consider making a creation sometimes