That engaging a young person in learning is the first step in developing habits and skills that will support them in realizing their academic, civic, and career potential?
If we started learning in the young age we know our field of interest and career path and also we can keep experimenting our self into varieties of the field.
technological spaces and gaming spaces
Technology and game are on the same path. Technologies defines the games, and people who love to invest time in playing games, sometime take courses on "game design". Game also triggers the kids and other age group to determine what they wanna do with their life.
Can I try?
Every people who sees the game , they love to try it and feel the environment of the game. Thats where people start learning more about the game and show interest in it.
10The Ecology of Gamesinnovation to transform the conditions of learning and play is shared as a cautionary taleabout the difficulties of reforming existing social and cultural structures even with the bestof intentions and innovative new technologies.Similarly, despite the range of perspectives offered, there is an implicit assumption carriedon every page of this volume of a need to identify the kinds of questions not yet asked, thekinds of research not yet done—the failings, in other words—of the current approach to afield that is only now beginning to take shape. With regard to this point, there are a numberof simple, yet often overlooked premises that have shaped the volume as a whole. I list themin abbreviated form here by way of quick introduction:Gaming can include interaction with nondigital media. While video games dominatethe discourse around game-based learning, many qualities of games as learning systemsare present in nondigital games as well, and many games take both digital and nondigitalforms. Play across media is one way games are mobilized within everyday activity.24The relationship between games and learning has a history that predates the advent ofmodern video games, including a rich history in the design of children’s software.Learningaboutgames and learningwithgames take place simultaneously
People who play games can give better feedback than the one who dont play or play less. More we play more we learn about the games and we open the door for more ways of understanding game.
Gaming constitutes the sum totalof activities, literacies, knowledge, and practices
Game truly triggers our ability in brain for solving problem. New games have new ideas, and knowledge to solve mystery or to go to next level. This can make people productive and performative.
Whereas education in the early part of the twentieth century focused on the acquisitionof basic literacy skills—simple reading, writing, and calculating—many believe that edu-cation in the twenty-first century must focus on high literacy skills such as the ability tothink, read, and interact critically, to solve complex problems in mathematics and sci-ence, and to express oneself persuasively through language and media
This true, in early twentieth, it was just about what was written on books, i used to hear that teacher never go outside the topic for extra knowledge. Simple reading, calculation but now college believes in skills and critical thinking, and international languages and culture also has been part of new generation.
If a game has poorlearning principles built into its design, then it won’t get learned or playedand won’t sell well.
I can relate this with the mobile app. Some of them are very poorly design.
The key is finding ways to make hard things life enhanc-ing so that people keep going and don’t fall back on learning and thinkingonly what is simple and easy
learning simple things and easy to understand will not enhance or broaden our mind. We need to push our limit and move further to learn some thing tough to get more deep thought about particular topics.
Socialpractices and social groups are always changing, some slowly, some at a fasterpace
social practices that are not accepted by some generation no longer falls into social norms and values. Some are improvised, and some just eradicated from the culture.
reading and thinking are socialachievements connected to social groups
Reading and thinking is understanding and knowing about what to expect, believe and how knowledge could practically be used in social practice.
strategicreadingthatstudentstypicallydoinvolvesreadingformainpointsthatwillbecoveredonatest.
I don't study anything more except the possible questions that might come on exam.
Designinglearningenvironments
It is a tips and guides and resources that are practical engaging every individual on the class room.
game-basedlearningasamodelforeducation
This is interesting that student can learn varieties of thing from video game. Video game are not just about war game, escaping, running etc. Some games can enhance the brain activities and the expands the abilities to solve the problems.
Inmosteveryotherknowledgeworkingsector,expertiseisdefinedbyone’sabilitytoidentifyproblems,mobilizeresourcestosolvethem,leveragesocialnetworks,communicateeffec-tively,workoveranextendedperiodoftime,anddevelopcomplexmul-timodalrepresentations
Such expertise are also good at making critical thinking and analyse the deep down fact of the matter. Their ideas are just unique and make sense in a way that other people can barely think about the way expertise think.
Recentnewsheadlinestellofstudentsusingcamerastodigitizetestsandsendthemviae-mail,orusingInternet-enabledcellphonestocheatinanynumberofways
Seems like this is fact. That student might use their cell phone or internet facilities to cheat on exam. But not all people have to go through such situation but we can still think about it(cheating) as a possible activities in school. Some of the school in my country doesn't let student to bring cell phones in school.
Mapping My Learning Ecology
Kyle my friend this is great. Like you said thickness of book and interest should go along. You are absolutely right. I likes the sentence. To be honest mine was just apposite. I hated the books as I upgrade for classes. You are also right about the culture, which is a great part of our life during learning process. Interaction and discussion, critiquing and respectful behavior is crucial in learning process. You came up with great points. Also bad and good social site and media, if not differentiated properly, those information could harm us and those are the wall of barrier for good information and effective learning. And your picture is simply the best. Thankyou Kyle
Mapping my learning ecology rough draft
Colorful; I believe your life is You as colorful as this page right here. :). Yours is very realistic Michael. You are talking about culture, society and identity which is kinda nice. Being discipline not only while learning but at any circumstances, will keep you focus and co operative. I liked it. The way you have highlighted the explanatory box and other topics is proper.
Mapping My Learning Ecology Rough Draft
I think this is great Josh. Its my second language so I might not be able to give you great feed back. But your start is amazing. It is very deep and properly analysed what you actual do in you dally life. I am also doing mechanical engineering so I can relate the thing you have return. One thing I liked is "Defining who am I". This one is just like looking at the mirror and defining how we look in actuality not just explaining randomly about our self. Understanding yourself gives you the realization of your strength. I loved it.
he internet has done more than speed up software distribution. It has fundamentally changed the routes by which people can communicate and collaborate
Internet is changing the world into a small room. We can communicate quick and without disturbance from place to place. Because of internet and software we are now able to explore any thing as easy as pie.
For Papert, the computer is the first tool capable of enabling individual efforts at progressive change to actually take off.
With computer inventions and discovery of new programs, we actually started more effective ways of learning. And learning became more interesting and also tough sometime until we make a grasp of using technologies along with its function.
Early designers of experiments in progressive education lacked the tools that would allow them to create new methods in a reliable and systematic fashion.
Until we experiment different ways to learn, there will never be progresses in education. And if we lack the tools, that means, we lack ideas for progressing.
ack the tools and conviction to initiate real change.
One tool for student on learning environment might not work as similarly good as for another student.
“Why, through a period when so much human activity has been revolutionized, have we not seen comparable change in how we help our children learn?
The time when my parent had gone for school and the time we go school including facilities at home we study and play with are far more different than past.
improving learning
Learning is always about enhancement, improvements and exploring varieties of technologies. Mobile learning could be one of them.
CD-ROM
Learning from CD ROM was very fascinating and learning from mobile, someday, was out of my thought. But it just like learning from CD ROM but in a more advance way.
mobile technologies
Mobile technologies has been growing so fast. For all sector and field, we can experiment our learning through mobile. Apps is one of the most effective program that is allowing people to access information quick and in a Convenient way.
it should be even easier this time to see an experiment, context, or idea that you can connect with.
Any person can relate their life with mobile media learning. Any one can participate and learn connecting the context and incident about mobile media learning.
That territory is vast and constantly growing.
Mobile media learning has been growing up fast because it is being handy. We can use it any place any time and with network, we can access vast information on the spot. No more wait to learn. One click and all the information are on our hand.
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I think this is write, going into dept of the matter can bring us the reality that we can't find just by looking or listening to what other people say. Sometime with discussion, we see the hidden fact.
On the contrary, it was not uncommon for the whole class, or smaller groups of students, to confront conflict when negotiating rights and responsibilities,
Students are always calm, peace. They are here to learn. If they have to come to chat about right and responsibilities, its frustrating, of course and very uncommon.
Students researched relevant web– based and print resources; communicated with community members via email; created and organized media; built prototypes; and engaged in informal critique and feedback sessions.
In open lab, many student can make their involvement for giving and taking new knowledge and feedback. They can make active participation for positive and practical outcomes.
these approaches seek to build new forms of value and capacity that come from diverse cultures and communities
Obviously, people are from different culture and country. They have different capacity or are grown up with different ways of learning. So new approaches are in-need like new technology, to fix the old approaches for a new one.
Other researchers have looked to home environments to understand differences in educational attainment.
I think it matter that good home environment is directly related to the better consequences in school environment. If family is well educated, its possible children will do well in school and if family is wealthy, children can get admitted in good school.
We can’t expect young people to be able to “bank” knowledge and skills from school and apply them to a stable world of work later in life. Instead, we need an approach to educational reform that recognizes learning as an ongoing process, connected to a diverse and evolving ecosystem of learning resources, institutions, communities, and outcomes (Freire, 1970)
This is true that everything we learn in school and college is not always practical. We learn so many things at once, and we can only store little of all the knowledge in our head. If skills that we learned are not useful in future then, learning doesn't make any sense. We have to move along with the time and study in a way that this generation demands.
Examples of learning environments that are currently integrating the spheres of peers, interests, and academic pursuits include athletics programs that are tied to in-school recognition, certain arts and civic learning programs, and interest-driven academic programs such as math, chess, or robotics competitions. These connected learning environments ideally embody values of equity, social belonging, and participation.
These activities can broaden the mind of students. They are not captivated by books any longer. They will be able to think the education in practical manner. They can improve their imagination. They also can follow their interest. These can make student social and keeps inspired.
Although she did not have learning supports or many friends who shared her interest, the online world opened up a new site for learning and specialization.
Online learning is self study. You can learn how ever you want. You can master in any topics or course. There is no boundaries or limits on courses you want to learn from online sources.
we have valued creative writing or art classes not only because they help to identify and train future writers and artists, but also because the creative process is valuable on its own; every child deserves the chance to express him- or her-self through words, sounds, and images, even if most will never write, perform, or draw professionally. Having these experi-ences, we believe, changes the way youths think about them-selves and alters the way they look at work created by others.
All people don't work in field of art or don't take class for being professional speaker or writer. But those classes help them to understand their own mind. They can speak through their own soul, can comprehend their interest. These class help every people to think the way they see themselves so that they could bring some changes on their personalities if they need to or be creative than they use to be.
The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and net-working. These skills build on the foundation of traditional lit-eracy and research, technical, and critical-analysis skills learned in the classroom.
Learning through networking provide us with experiences of other peers and collective knowledge about the culture, tradition, behavior can be learned at a same time. Involvement of the critical thinking, acknowledging new thoughts, also productive,effective, and constructive frame of new literacies are possible while studing together.
The challenges young people face in learning to recognize the ways that media shape perceptions of the world.
Media is very powerful. It has made the world small. People believe the incident that is not seen with their own eyes. When you go to learn through media, it difficult not to trust it or to think beyond what you don't know. Challenges is to make a critical thinking and compare the information with every possible other information or sources to gain pure knowledge.
The growth of an age-specifi c identity of “teenagers” or “youth” was inextricably linked with the rise of commercial popular culture as young people consumed popular music, fashion, fi lm, and television as part of their participation in peer culture
Now the fashion, music, food, sports have became so important to get into the peer culture. Even if we try to be social through internet, we don't want to bore our peers by not engaging or knowing at least one of those things that matters to make a social participation.
y fl exibly mobilizing different networked communications capabilities, young people circum-vent some of the limits that prevent them from hanging out with their friends.
Its fact that, use of text messages, video call, now a days, people don't even have to show up in certain place to share information. They can find the way to be connected any how.
Young people move between the context of the school, where they are physically copresent but are limited in the kinds of social activities they can engage in, and the context of the home, where they have more freedom to set their social agendas but are not usually copresent with their peers
Its true that we can't socialize ourselves in school because of its own priority that school have, While in home, we have time to socialize but we don''t have peers. So either way it's tough to be within that opportunity to be socialize.
teens generally see their peers at school as their primary reference point for socializing and identity construction.
Every teen wants to hang out with of their age. They don't find it fascinating to get involved with older age group because of generation difference or gap.
“Hanging out,” “messing around,” and “geeking out” describe differing levels of investments in new media activities in a way that integrates an understanding of technical, social, and cultural patterns
Youth being social could the part of culture or their interest.And on the top of it technology also helping people to get involve in different occasion, so that they can invest their socioculture activities though they are far.
Young people in the United States today are growing up in a media ecology where digital and networked media are playing an increasingly central role
Obviously, kids today are more smarter than we use to be back then. Its because of the media, internet, games etc. They are broadening their mind but in other hand also centralizing our mind in one thing. We spend hours in social networking site just scrolling.
I get up in the morning and I just take a shower and eat breakfast and then I go to school. No technology there.
This kind of reminds me of my school days. We still do everything in paper. No computers. I mean we do have computers but we don't do writing or any assignments from computer, still. And taking cell phone to college would be a blunder mistake.
He found time to work on his clubhouse movies in school, storyboarding scenes during free time. He found an elective class in school where they used iMovie. As part of the class he worked with a group of peers to create a movie, all participants taking on roles of actors, scriptwriters, and directors.
This line just reminded me that if you are passionate, you just figure out ways to get involve. You come up with ideas to work on your interest and utilize the moment to its fullest.
As he was out in the world viewing stories and professional fi lms, he watched for directors’ cuts and angles for shots and their narrative story lines. As he envisioned special effects in his claymation action drama, he gener-ated visual design goals that set in motion the pursuit of learning new techniques that advanced his dual aims of realism and a professional look.
He is very persuasive. very passionate and committed. He understands what need to improve but not by distorting all of his own ideas.
It is important to trace connections between learn-ing activities and to characterize how content-related interests evolve over time and across life settings.
Their always is a relations between learning and characterizing what we learn. We can learn the vast number of courses and knowing what we just learn how we can apply it for life is crucial.
. T h e I n t e r n e t , for example, allows for the proliferation of communities of learning that cater to very speci fi c kinds of interests and that are available to anyone who has access to the Internet and the skills to understand them, such that even young learners can develop high levels of competence.
If we have facilities of internet we can actually be specific about learning. We can learn the way we want and be a fast learner. It can meet our interest and we can approach it any where any time, and for any time period, only if we are accessible for internet. Thus every age group can enhance their knowledge with it.
his teachers were surprised to see what he was able to do, “They were kind of amazed, like they liked it a lot. Their eyes were wide like look-ing at it
People can't just say someone is bad or good at anything until they see it. Thus just before we spread our talent just by telling people, we can actually show them by action. That could prove their latent talent. And people will stop judging.
. It’s two different worlds. If he doesn’t graduate, if he doesn’t ... if he’s getting bad grades, that’s where we know how to punish him, right here because this is his main interest. We had to restrict his activity at the clubhouse because he was not focusing on school.
Life is not always fair. We can't always spend all of our time to the things we are passionate in. It would have been great if we could just focus on what we need to learn rather than learning every thing so that we could master on what we are interested in. But knowing basic stuff from school before getting into advance or any other field doesn't hurt, perhaps.
Once Luis has planned out his general idea for a movie, he gathered the materials he needed to produce his work. Initially, this included action fi gures from home for the characters and play dough and clay from the clubhouse for different effects (such as using red play dough to model spilling blood as shown in Fig. 8.2 ). As he made more movies and got feedback from himself and others, he looked for new tips and tricks.
This basically gives me idea that every big things has small initiation. We start with small concept and come up with ideas from scratch to a strong version of it. More we attempt, more we realize the fault and good ways at a same time.
. O u r m e t h o d s i n v o l v e o b s e r v ation, interviews, analysis of the artifacts learners create, and data collection through an occasional questionnaire. To advance our conceptualization of learning over time and settings, we create visualizations that map key learning activities, relationships between activities, where they take place, and the people and resources involved in each activity.
Our learning process is not limited within small circle. We try to get involved with varieties of resources to broaden our knowledge. Also, best ways of learning, understanding, in fact, is a main concern of the people. We learn mostly by watching because it create a images in our brain, relate object and map with each things we learn and comprehend the phenomena in wide angle.
It starts there first, before I even heard any type of melody or lyric. That's just DNA. It's always the yin and the yang, the good versus the evil. And that pushed me toward the music that I love to listen to
The facts demonstrate that numerous individuals have in-built capacities or are fascinated in certain field of the life by birth. They begin feeling about their enthusiasm when they get triggered by any kind of medium. They acknowledge the difficulties to become familiar with those things and master it yet not always in scholastic ways. Or maybe at some point they will be considered as self thought. Because of which they are not captivated in other individuals shoes, can run according with their potential and bend themselves to make things simple, because they are fully liberal and can make rules for themselves. Indeed, ups and downs are joyful for those individuals. Kendrick taking about culture and family, DNA; it is also a part of literacy. They are likewise a motivator, gives us opportunity to think about ourselves.