Tim Holt's Blog – May 2007 Archive (6)

Dr. Alice Robison on Video Games as a Learning Tool

I recently spoke with Dr. Alice Robison form MIT on the topic of how video games can be used as learnign tools. A very interesting interview, and she had some surprising insight on how to use and when to use video games.

HEre is the link: It is long, copy all of it into the URL box.

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/A1ACB7D8-5CCA-4392-9B1D-1605DD2385F1.html

Enjoy. Please leave some feedback.

Tim

Added by Tim Holt on May 31, 2007 at 10:47am — 2 Comments

Technology is a Tool, not a Class

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse.

To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the

confident it is inspiring…

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Added by Tim Holt on May 30, 2007 at 2:33pm — 2 Comments

Let's all meet at NECC

Okay everyone, shall we all plan a meeting at NECC in Atlanta??
We could all take pictures of each other for our blog sites,. we could all go to dinner or drinks...

It would be great to meet y'all!

How about a Classroom 2.0 dinner?

Tim

Added by Tim Holt on May 28, 2007 at 10:35pm — 10 Comments

My One-Man Crusade: Multimedia Science Fair Projects

Is there anyone in the Science education community that thinks this is a worthwhile idea?

All the tech folks love it, the kids love it...

The Science fair people think it is..well...they won't comment..

What will it take to get out of the "Cardboard backboard is better" mentality.

I also did a podcast with Kevin over at his site about this topic.

Here is a blog entry form about 6 months ago...

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Added by Tim Holt on May 28, 2007 at 8:52am — 8 Comments

Student Technology Bill of Rights

On my other blog, I asked for feedback for creating a student technology Bill of Rights.

Here is what I have so far. What would you…

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Added by Tim Holt on May 26, 2007 at 10:17am — 2 Comments

Greetings fellow travelers!

Okay, Kevin Honeycutt forced me to come over here, and being the kinda guy that lets Kevin tell me what to do, here I am!

I will be posting more as time goes on, but in the meantime, to get an idea of where my little brain is, check out Tim's little website and let me know what you think.

Byte Speed

Added by Tim Holt on May 26, 2007 at 10:12am — 1 Comment