The document discusses 9 reasons why games should be used instead of online courses for learning. It argues that games give learners more choice in how they learn, similar to how Amazon personalizes recommendations. Games also immerse learners in contexts that cognitive psychologists believe helps learning occur in the zone of proximal development. The document notes that games are good because they do not have rigid "next" buttons and sometimes allow useful failures unlike traditional online courses.
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Gone are the days of having to discuss the existence and importance of a social media presence for schools. Faculty, students, parents, stakeholders, potential families and employees, and a people-network, vital to your organization, are expecting interaction, curated information and just in time news updates. Who is the lead storyteller at your school? Social Media has changed the way we communicate, curate, archive and disseminate information. Schools no longer push out content as a one sided conversation. Who is overseeing what, when and how something is being said about your school? How do schools harness the power of social media and embed authentic, collaborative, and networked communication, learning and marketing?
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Interested in working and learning with Silvia? Contact her via http://www.globallyconnectedlearning.com
Gone are the days of having to discuss the existence and importance of a social media presence for schools. Faculty, students, parents, stakeholders, potential families and employees, and a people-network, vital to your organization, are expecting interaction, curated information and just in time news updates. Who is the lead storyteller at your school? Social Media has changed the way we communicate, curate, archive and disseminate information. Schools no longer push out content as a one sided conversation. Who is overseeing what, when and how something is being said about your school? How do schools harness the power of social media and embed authentic, collaborative, and networked communication, learning and marketing?
AMATYC 39th Annual Conference Friday night Ignite Event: Twenty slides are automatically advanced every 15 seconds while the speakers have exactly five minutes to share their passion!
Inscriptions 31st issue has been published. Please read about Self control and its role in our becoming a great personality in the article "Self Control- Is it a Rocket science?" written by Mr R Gopinath. The next article Financial Planning - the basics (part 1) written by Mr R Gopinath will be quite useful for financial planners, Insurance advisors and other investment products advisors. Mr Vidyadhar Lagad has contributed his article "Retirement planning, adoption of a son. We have proudly shared the achievement of Master Utkarsh Mathur, son of our associate Mr Samrat Mathur. Thanking all our contributors and patrons who have encouraged us to continue our pursuit of publishing a magazine that inspires and teaches our associates to bring about their best in their lives.-rg
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It's just an ordinary opinion :-)
From daily routines
For years.
If your team suck, maybe you can get some insight or remind you to something or maybe can get a crazy idea to fix culture around software development environment.
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Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
AMATYC 39th Annual Conference Friday night Ignite Event: Twenty slides are automatically advanced every 15 seconds while the speakers have exactly five minutes to share their passion!
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30 Marketing growth hack cards taken from the recent blog posts of the smartest cookies in the industry. Crazy, sneaky, happy and weird marketing hacks.
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Despite all the advice that's given to us, we seem intent on ignoring it. For better or worse, we rarely follow it until years later we understand what the person was trying to tell us. In this talk, I'll share the helpful, humiliating, and hilarious pieces of advice I've received and how they shaped my career (whether I listened or not). We'll also discuss why giving and receiving advice is important, how to handle it gracefully and why it can be so powerful. As Dijkstra said: "We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!"
Guiding Software Developer To "Heaven" Through "Darkness"Freddy Munandar
It's just an ordinary opinion :-)
From daily routines
For years.
If your team suck, maybe you can get some insight or remind you to something or maybe can get a crazy idea to fix culture around software development environment.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...
Games for Learning
1. Getting Serious about Games.
Seriously.
Richard
Cula,a
9
reasons
you
should
throw
out
your
online
courses
and
start
using
games
User:
Level:
DevLearn
2010
Shameless
plug
@rec54
9. It’s what Amazon would do
Inspired
by
my
wish
list
–
cool!
How
did
they
know
my
kids
speak
Spanish?
Wow,
the
only
season
of
West
Wing
I
don’t
already
have!
10. It’s what Amazon would do
Read This, Richard:!
Blah
blah
blah
ton
of
text
here.
Fizzle
ipsum
dolor
fizzle
amizzle,
consectetuer
adipiscing
crazy.
Nullizzle
fo
velit,
aliquet
volutpizzle,
suscipit
gangster,
gravida
gangsta,
arcu.
Pellentesque
eget
tor<zzle.
Sizzle
erizzle.
Fusce
dang
dolor
yo
mamma
check
it
out
tempizzle
tempor.
Maurizzle
mah
nizzle
nibh
izzle
mah
nizzle.
Ves<bulum
tellivizzle
tortor.
Pellentesque
eleifend
crunk.
In
hac
away
platea
dictumst.
Gizzle
the
bizzle.
Curabitur
gangsta
boom
shackalack,
pre<zzle,
sure
izzle,
eleifend
vitae,
nunc.
Break
it
down
suscipizzle.
My
shizz
semper
velit
sizzle
purus.
Whelp,
they
know
my
name.
I
guess
that’s
as
good
as
it
gets
11. It’s what Amazon would do
Kinesthe7c
learners:
Read
this
while
jumping
up
and
down,
that
will
really
help
you
learn
beLer
Read This, Richard:!
Whelp,
they
know
my
name.
I
guess
that’s
as
good
as
it
gets
Blah
blah
blah
ton
of
text
here.
Fizzle
ipsum
dolor
fizzle
amizzle,
consectetuer
adipiscing
crazy.
Nullizzle
fo
velit,
aliquet
volutpizzle,
suscipit
gangster,
gravida
gangsta,
arcu.
Pellentesque
eget
tor<zzle.
Sizzle
erizzle.
Fusce
dang
dolor
yo
mamma
check
it
out
tempizzle
tempor.
Maurizzle
mah
nizzle
nibh
izzle
mah
nizzle.
Ves<bulum
tellivizzle
tortor.
Pellentesque
eleifend
crunk.
In
hac
away
platea
dictumst.
Gizzle
the
bizzle.
Curabitur
gangsta
boom
shackalack,
pre<zzle,
sure
izzle,
eleifend
vitae,
nunc.
Break
it
down
suscipizzle.
My
shizz
semper
velit
sizzle
purus.
14. No Next buttons
How
tradi<onal
online
courses
force
people
to
learn:
1
2
3
4
5
Learn
this
Then
this
Now
do
this
15. No Next buttons
How
tradi<onal
online
courses
force
people
to
learn:
How
people
actually
learn:
1
2
3
4
5
Learn
this
Then
this
Now
do
this
Learn
this
I
wonder
what
that
looks
like
in
prac7ce?
Hmmm…
I
wonder
how
that
relates
to
this?
Holy
crap,
that
reminds
me
of
this
1
2
3
4
5
16. No Next buttons
• We just LOVE content. What we do is so important that
when we finally get a chance to make an online learning
it’s all we just can’t hold ourselves back. !
• But the best learning experiences are judicious with
content. But it’s more than just not having too much
content. It’s also having an abundance of context.!
• It seems like the best learning experiences use context
effectively. Here’s what it looks like. First,
describe the contextual problem (or ideally, allow them
to actually experience it!). Second, teach the solution
to the problem. !
• Here’s an example of the wrong way: teach a group of
scouts how to tie a taut line hitch. Together, think of
ways to use the taut line hitch!
• Here’s an example of the right way: Set up a tent in the
wind, let them try to figure out how to anchor it down.
Then teach them the taut line hitch!
• Here’s another example of the wrong way: Teach MBAs the
Newsvendor Equation, then let them play the Newsvendor
Game.!
• Here’s another example of the right way: Let them play
the game then teach them the Newsvendor Equation (once
they have the context for it).!
Online
Learning
–
Module
79
of
5362
Next
I
know
you
just
can’t
wait
to
see
what’s
on
the
next
page!
18. Cognitive psychologists dig it
“The best instruction hovers at the
boundary of a student’s competence.”!
- Andy diSessa (Berkeley Graduate School of Education)!
h,p://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/view.html
24. Sometimes it’s good to fail
If you want to succeed,
double your failure rate!
- Thomas Watson, Founder IBM!
25. Sometimes it’s good to fail
1. Tried
it
2. Failed
3. Yelled
at
by
teacher,
GPA
destroyed
Result:
Hated
math
for
the
rest
of
my
life
Online
Algebra
Failure
=
Bad
26. Sometimes it’s good to fail
Plants
vs.
Zombies
1. Tried
it
2. Failed
3. Yelled
at
by
teacher,
GPA
destroyed
Result:
Hated
math
for
the
rest
of
my
life
1. Tried
it
2. Failed
3. Rewarded
by
game
for
gedng
as
far
as
I
did,
encouraged
to
try
again
Result:
Spent
exaggerated
amounts
of
<me
playing
(and
eventually
bea<ng)
the
game
Online
Algebra
Failure
=
Bad
Failure
=
Learning
27. Sometimes it’s good to fail
Next
<me
you
interrupt,
you
be,er
have
a
good
reason
–
objec<on
overruled!
30. Here’s where it!
is supposed to go:!
Immerses learner in context
Start
by
dividing
the
screen
in
half
ver<cally.
Then
divide
the
right
side
in
half
again
and
place
the
shape
in
the
middle
of
the
ver<cal
plane.
Without
moving
the
shape
to
the
lek
and
right,
divide
the
screen
horizontally
and
place
the
shape
approximately
2”
above
the
horizontal
plane.
The
loca<on
of
the
shape
can
have
a
margin
of
error
or
3/4”
in
any
direc<on
and
s<ll
be
considered
adequate.
41. #1
Nobody ever wanted to stay up until
2:00 AM just to take your CBT one
more time before going to bed
42. Games are more fun
surprises
collabora7on
Mastery
=
Fun
Might
want
to
pick
this
up.
Ya
never
know
when
a
mega-‐blaster
might
come
in
handy
mastery
Try
again?
43. Games are more fun
“In other words, with games,
learning is the drug”!
- Raph Koster (theory of fun)!
44. Games are more fun
Innova<veLearning.com/games
So
what
next?
Go
here
45. Games are more fun
There’s
no
learning
objec7ve
that
can’t
be
made
into
a
great
game
There’s
no
learning
objec7ve
can’t
be
ruined
by
turning
it
into
a
“nexter”
Innova<veLearning.com/games