I don't remember noticing that when I did Depression Quest.

I think a lot of teachers have trouble with this--they see embedding everything in a story as something more akin to performance than learning.

This is important--creating a story that helps people learn for themselves will always be more effective.

Yep, many many commercials have made me cry. Though I don't see many commercials anymore.

I would categorize Spent as a learning experience and a story, mostly because something so bleak is not a fun game to me, lol. It's an interactive branching story, and it's really well done! I ran out of money on day 6. Shouldn't have fixed my car.

LOL

I have always heard similar things about the character-building aspects of sports, and I definitely agree that sports can teach participants a lot of valuable skills. But I haven't seen the same amount of respect paid to other sorts of "play" in general.

This means that the teachers themselves will also need to know how to not just be autonomous problem-solvers--I know that many teachers can feel siloed and alone in their content area.

This is a fantastic (and lofty) goal

I'm having a hard time finding these :/

This already seems like a complicated project to pull off, so I'm not sure how the facilitators would approach integrating more global engagement without getting overwhelmed.

Giving kids a wider perspective of the world is so valuable.

I so badly wanted to teach like this when I was a middle/high school English teacher, but I never saw anything similar in action and just didn't have the time and courage to figure out how to make happen. It sounds really cool.

I feel like this will take a lot of effort and planning! We will have to make a lot of decisions up front so that each of us can work on our individual stories without stopping and asking questions constantly to stay on the same aesthetic thread

Thank youuuuuuuu

The end of this video made me laugh out loud. What an entertaining and distressing vision of the future!

This was an interesting read. I've never thought about learner agency being broken down into distinct parts like this. It's always encouraging to read things that make me feel more in control of my learning and life experience.

I have made many slideshows in this program, lol!

Some learning can occur in the default learning state, though it's likely to be more superficial. I'm thinking of something that would require memorization or recall, like the Periodic Table. Though maybe that isn't learning, maybe it should just be its own category?

This is a great idea! It's much easier to see the "seams" on something when you have experience make something similar.

I agree with many of the points in this section, but I also think about the fact that today we read many, many texts online without context. Perhaps we need practice reading something out of context and then diving deeper. Maybe an out of context close reading is just the jumping off point for something much more detailed.

I argue that this point is not "put simply' :)

Wow, that's really interesting. We have some ingrained mental processes to fight against in our current era of overwhelming information'

Jaws is fiction but sharks are real. Not as huge and vindictive as the Jaws shark, but still real animals that clearly exist. So watching a movie like Jaws before going to the ocean creates a more reasonable change in behavior than believing Slenderman exists because there is a website and other web stories, and then stabbing your friend to impress him.

This speaks to why advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry. Create a story that transports people and makes them think they need your product.

I have to admit that I am often wary of group projects, especially in a condensed summer class!