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The fundamental problem is not that learning isn’t fun, it’s that we’re answering questions that kids aren’t asking (Who?, What?, When?, Where?) instead of giving them tools to experiment, build on, and share their own ideas. The problem is that we’re trying to replace teachers and parents with software rather than giving them complementary tools to help them become facilitators and coaches instead of test administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backyard game of tag is an excellent way to demonstrate natural selection. Sure, one might replicate that with a computer game, but why? As educational media designers, our role shouldn’t be to demonstrate these phenomena in action (there are plenty of tools for that), but instead to leverage the incredible power of modern technology to help kids answer the bigger questions: HOW and WHY are these phenomena happening? Our role should be to guide them up \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy\">Bloom’s Taxonomy\u003c/a> to not just memorize and regurgitate, but to synthesize, analyze, and create. To do this, we need to dive deeper – to help kids learn not just by “doing,” but by designing (please see: \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/08/john-maeda-design-technology-data-companies-10-keynote.html\">John Maeda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/the-creativity-crisis-why-american-schools-need-design/73038/\">Laura Seargent Richardson\u003c/a>). 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-10306\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/criticism-of-online-learning-misses-important-questions/4682768709_2771dbdac6/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10306\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/4682768709_2771dbdac6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/4682768709_2771dbdac6.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/4682768709_2771dbdac6-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/04/4682768709_2771dbdac6-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of students at the K-12 level who are taking an online course has increased dramatically over the past few years. The most recent figures from the \u003ca href=\"http://sloanconsortium.org/\">Sloan Consortium\u003c/a>, an advocacy group for online education, put the number at over 1 million in 2007, up over 47% from two years earlier. About 200,000 students attend online schools full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> If students are not excelling in face-to-face settings, can online learning provide them with a better -- or different, or another -- opportunity? \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A story in this week's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/education/06online.html\">New York Times\u003c/a> takes a closer look at this trend, suggesting that the explosion in online learning may be motivated more by opportunities to save districts money and less by the chance to provide quality education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most rapidly expanding areas for online learning, the story points out, is in credit recovery courses - a chance for those who failed a class to still get credit. These classes are used by high schools, particularly in high-poverty districts, to help increase graduation rates and avoid federal sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trip Gabriel's article opens with an anecdote from one such class, where a student never had to actually \"wade through a tattered copy\" of a Jack London story, but copy-and-pasted paragraphs and a bio from Wikipedia and sent it off as part of the homework assignment. 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If students are not excelling in face-to-face settings, can online learning provide them with a better -- or different, or another -- opportunity? And can online learning open new doors that just aren't possible in a classroom, with access to different types of creative and collaborative possibilities with students and teachers worldwide? What about reports that show the value of blended learning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The article also suggests that arguments for and against online education break down into what looks like questions of labor rather than questions of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like other education debates, this one divides along ideological lines. K-12 online learning is championed by conservative-leaning policy groups that favor broadening school choice, including Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education, which has called on states to provide all students with 'Internet access devices' and remove bans on for-profit virtual schools. Teachers’ unions and others say much of the push for online courses, like vouchers and charter schools, is intended to channel taxpayers’ money into the private sector.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The political backdrop with budget issues and teacher layoffs does make this a complicated issue, but it isn't one that falls so neatly into two ideological camps. The question of the quality of online learning took center-stage in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/04/05/can-young-students-learn-from-online-classes\">Room for Debate\u003c/a> section, where five educators responded about the potential and the quality of online learning at the K-12 level. Those responses show that it isn't an either-or matter here. Online isn't de facto better or worse. It isn't a matter of either public schools or private companies leading the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't to say, of course, we shouldn't ask tough questions about the quality of education. 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Thanks in part to \"the \u003ca href=\"http://www.p21.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Partnership for 21st Century Skills\u003c/a> movement,\" he says, \"there's been the recognition that it's not just about science and math; students also need reading and writing skills, they need global awareness, they need to know how to work in teams, they need to know how to use technology.\" And years of iEARN project evaluation shows that \"having an authentic audience of their peers gets kids motivated.\" Gragert and initiative partners call this \"learning \u003cem>with\u003c/em> the world, not just about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a Skype conference between students in Redwood City, California, and Karachi and Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss youth-produced journalism, will soon be written up on the Connect All Schools site. The students in Karachi are involved in an \u003ca href=\"http://youthvoices.adobe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Youth Voices (AYV)\u003c/a> filmmaking project (check out this \u003ca href=\"//blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/creating-media-connects-kids-to-global-events/\" target=\"_blank\">MindShift post\u003c/a> about AYV) and the Rawalpindi/Islamabad students produce content for \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldyouthnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\">World Youth News\u003c/a>. The Redwood City students work on both projects. 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Minecraft is what's known as a \"sandbox\" game, giving players almost complete freedom to build within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's what makes it great for the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Levin, a computer teacher at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgps.org/\">Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School\u003c/a> uses Minecraft with second-grade students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minecraft can be played in single-person or in multiplayer mode, and players can join public servers, or in the case of Levin's class, the game can be run on a private server. By doing the latter, Levin is able to install certain \u003ca href=\"http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/post/4039013893/answers-to-your-questions\">add-ons and mods\u003c/a> suited for his students (giving him the power, for example, to place and delete blocks from a distance). But the students do play the multiplayer version, entering Minecraft's brick-building world together and, together, working through various projects that Levin assigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This combination of control through a private Minecraft server and the open-endedness of the game is, in Levin's words, \"exactly what is so appealing to me about Minecraft as a teaching tool. It's so open ended and extensible. I really think of it more as a canvas than a game. I'm able to construct these elaborate experiences, settings, and stories for the kids to move through. Rather than having to shoehorn a lesson around a game, I'm able to think about what I'm trying to teach and then design an entire world around that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-10041\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/legos-for-the-digital-age-students-build-imaginary-worlds/kroih/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/krOIh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/krOIh.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/krOIh-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/krOIh-320x161.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many video games are focused on certain goals -- level up, save the princess, destroy the aliens, for example -- Minecraft has no clear-cut missions, at least not in that way. Players in Minecraft must scavenge for resources in order to build things -- mining for stone to build buildings, mining for coal to build fire. One of the only limitations in-game is time -- the sun sets each evening and when it's dark, spiders and skeletons come out and can attack the characters. (Levin \u003ca href=\"http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/post/4189589042/classroom-wishlist\">admits\u003c/a> the students don't like the dark and ask him to reset the clock so that it stays light.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, much like Minecraft, Levin's experiment using the game in the classroom was initially just as open-ended. He says he had no clearly defined goals, although he knew that there would be lessons -- both technical and social -- that he could impart. After running the game with his students for a while, \"I'm now trying to define real goals. 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Worst of all, my students were not engaged and had little meaningful contact with their teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of feeling like a total failure I told the principal that I was dissatisfied with my teaching practice and needed to find a better way to engage the students in their learning. With her blessing, I began my search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc3300;\">\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>BUILD A CIVILIZATION: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>CAESAR III\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It began by resurrecting some game programs that had met with great success in my classroom practice. Although I am not a \"gamer\" I knew it was important to steer clear of the \"eye candy,\" and the \"drill and kill\" activities that call themselves games. I will recommend one here called\u003ca href=\"http://caesar3.heavengames.com/strategy/\"> Caesar III\u003c/a>. In this simulation, students begin as a lowly citizen trying to eke out an existence in a virgin landscape. The student begins by learning about the\u003cstrong> basic needs for survival and graduates to increasingly demanding scenarios.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By the end, students will have gained a very sophisticated understanding of the influence played by the environment on the development of a civilization. They will also have experienced the dynamics of government including infrastructure, \u003cstrong>civil service, taxation, education, healthcare, religion, trade, security,\u003c/strong> etc. Still, while games like this may have improved both the level of student engagement and learning, there was little opportunity for collaboration between students, and relationship with the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc3300;\">2. MEET MEDIEVAL CITIZENS, EXPLORE HISTORIC CITIES: CASPIAN LEARNING\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It seemed likely that the next step would involve virtual worlds, where students and teachers could interact. The best resource I could find was put out by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinkingworlds.com/\">\u003cstrong>Caspian Learning, called Thinking Worlds\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. In it, a student enters into a virtual world that resides on their personal computer. Their avatar can be somewhat modified, and engage in a wide variety of explorations. In the unit dealing with volcanoes and earthquakes, they not only learn about the details, they visit places such as \u003cstrong>Herculaneum, subterraneous faults, and the ruins of Kobe in Japan.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There, they gather information from the people and learn about what it's like to be in an earthquake and how one should prepare for it. In other units they interact with \u003cstrong>blood cells, astronauts, computer chips, medieval citizens dealing with the Domesday Book, Dracula, Louis the XVI, Hitler,\u003c/strong> and the list goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Students are able to redo these quests as many times as they need to in order to gain mastery. The feedback and marking is instantaneous, so they are able to know when they've met my minimum requirement of 90%. I hardly ever get a score of 90% though, students will invariably repeat their quests until they get 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc3300;\">\u003cstrong>3. LIVE WITH INDIGENOUS CULTURES: QUEST ATLANTIS\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And still, my quest for creating a community of learners was unmet. Until one day, when I'd all but given up, I saw a reference to a program called \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/\">Quest Atlantis\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong> In less than 15 minutes of researching this resource it was clear to me that I had found what I was looking for. In Quest Atlantis (QA), my students are engaged in a narrative as compelling as The Chronicles of Narnia, except not as passive spectators, but as active participants in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Their age and school appropriate avatars are able to explore and learn in an environment that is secure, monitored, and dynamically expansive. Through QA my students have gone to\u003cstrong> live with the First Nations people of Mesa Verde, negotiated plans to save the Black Rhino with the various stakeholders in Tanzania, taken rockets to space stations\u003c/strong> to learn about the technology they will need to deploy and use in order to deflect Near Earth Objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the meantime, they \u003cstrong>learn about Internet safety and protocols, how to build virtual buildings, and most importantly how to become a better global citizen.\u003c/strong> I cannot say enough about how QA has transformed both my teaching practice, and my students. While the founders, the Faculty of Education Learning Sciences division at the University of Indiana call it transformational play, the parents call it \"Miraculous Play.\" The scope and depth of opportunities offered by QA is far too great to even attempt to do justice to it as part of an article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc3300;\">\u003cstrong>4. SURVIVE IN THE WILD\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: WOLFQUEST\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The learning I was bringing to my students was still very guided and curriculum based. Now, I was looking for even more, programs that would allow the students to be creative. With their Internet safety training, I could now put them on \u003ca href=\"http://www.wolfquest.org/\">\u003cstrong>Wolfquest\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. In Wolfquest each student becomes a solitary wolf, struggling to find their place in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. They learn about the challenges of life in the wild, and the need for \"others.\" In time, they can mate, and form a pack of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What fun to watch the alpha males try to take down a bull elk. They cannot. They need the pack. What fun to watch as the \"quiet ones\" assume leadership of the pack, and the subsequent high fives when they successfully organize and conclude a hunt. What fun to watch my teaching colleagues attempt to do the same. We cannot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc3300;\">\u003cstrong>5. REDESIGN LEARNING: CYBERNETWORLDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Where to now? Well, we've obtained virtual space on \u003ca href=\"http://www.cybernetworlds.com/\">\u003cstrong>Cybernetworlds\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a family-run virtual universe that I cannot say enough about. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/emeryjl/3495302347/\">\u003c/a>\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-9869\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/the-pitfalls-and-promise-of-social-media-and-kids/hoyasmeg-2/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9869\" title=\"Hoyasmeg\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/Hoyasmeg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/Hoyasmeg1.jpg 517w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/Hoyasmeg1-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/03/Hoyasmeg1-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 500 million \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics\">Facebook\u003c/a> users across the world, it’s hard to refute that the social networking site has profoundly changed the way we communicate and share information. 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