http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/02/25/vste-2007-day-1-reflections/ education technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/02/25/vste-2007-day-1-reflections/#comment-5 Tom DeWeerd Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:18:16 +0000 http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/02/25/vste-2007-day-1-reflections/#comment-5 <p>John... I am going to buy Prensky's books for us. As you know Kim Berry already is doing a some "games" with Quia, http://www.quia.com/ and believes having students create games sounds exciting. I do think there is a place for games and play and "second world" model activities and simulations.... all this works to help kids be creative and "higher level" thinkers. Actually, the discussion we can have based on Marc Prensky's presentation will move us forward with the Web 2.0 world. One thing is for administrators to trust teachers and to allow the freedom to fail. Most often success will come, perhaps not on the first try, but subsequently as teacher and students learn together.</p> John… I am going to buy Prensky’s books for us. As you know Kim Berry already is doing a some “games” with Quia, http://www.quia.com/ and believes having students create games sounds exciting. I do think there is a place for games and play and “second world” model activities and simulations…. all this works to help kids be creative and “higher level” thinkers. Actually, the discussion we can have based on Marc Prensky’s presentation will move us forward with the Web 2.0 world. One thing is for administrators to trust teachers and to allow the freedom to fail. Most often success will come, perhaps not on the first try, but subsequently as teacher and students learn together.

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