Link to an Educational Stack
Erik Hansen
erikhans08 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 27 18:16:11 EDT 2004
--- Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> on Thu, 26 Aug 2004
> Mark Greenberg wrote:
> > The New York Times featured me and this
> > teaching approach in the
> > Circuit section last Thursday (front page).
> > That's me in the picture.
>
> This is the direction for this article.
> make an account with the NYT.
>
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/technology/circuits/19teac.html>
>
> The article mentioned that you had created
> dozens of games: a role-playing card game
> called
> Magic: The Gathering that requires students to
> "dress"
> historical figures with qualities that best fit
> their
> names, a multimedia quiz on comma placement or
> the
> multiplication of polynomials, fill in blank
> speech
> balloons from Calvin and Hobbes comic strips
> and
> Jeopardy-like games to train students for the
> Academic Decathlon, a student contest.
sounds like an active sense of play inplay.
Andre Garzia (with a Z) wrote:
"code and comedy are very similar,
how many times you looked at a source
and laughed..."
this speaks to Richard Gaskin's thoughts
on using RunRev in brand new ways.
maybe humor is a crucial though intangiable
element in educational apps for kids.
Erik Hansen
=====
erik at erikhansen.org http://www.erikhansen.org
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