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Game violence
The topic of violent models goes back to the convincing work of Bandura and the bobo doll. Recent work attempts to understand the role of violence in media particularly games in which the game player takes an active role. It … Continue reading
MOOCs for Credit?
TechCrunch indicates that a large proportion of the profs who offer a MOOC do not feel the experience should be worth college credit. This is an interesting, but not surprising position for those who offer content to take. I think … Continue reading
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An open source alternative to Google docs?
Check this out – OX app suite. Sounds like the open source community (e.g., Open Office) is working on an online suite of products I would describe as similar to Google docs. I could not get the demo to work, … Continue reading
Has Kahn flipped
Debating the Kahn Academy and the concept of a flipped classroom seem to attract a good proportion of the ed tech chatter of late. To me, these topics are not equivalent, but Kahn has moved his original approach from homework … Continue reading
One more Feedly Thing
I risk boring readers by this barrage of posts on Feedly (Google Reader replacement). If you are not an RSS user, these posts probably make little sense. I promise this will be the last post (unless Feedly gets sold). One … Continue reading
Google Explains Search
Google has created an interesting site that summarizes how search works. The design of the site is unique and the content explains Google policies.