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  1. Nov 2019
    1. esearchers should recognize that meaningful change in School is about development work, not imposing new standards

      To develop a school is making to give more opportunities that can allow growth for the students. To impose a new standard only makes the students change not learn .

    2. Active, self-directed learning. Students should be subjects actively directing their learning, not objects of instruction

      What does he mean when he says "not objects of instruction"?

    3. e progressive education movement as fundamentally having its heart in the right place

      Does he mean that you have to enjoy and seek out progressive education in order to in order to have your heart in the right place.

    1. As a loosely confederated set of thinkers and practitioners in MML for example, one of the desires that is frequently expressed is to use mobile to help unpack learning from all the little boxes we have squeezed it into.

      There is always learning in all types of mobile learning, and as long as there is learning there will always be conversation and interest in the learning.

    2. ogether those stories provided a rich snapshot of a few corners of the world where educators were finding ways to take mobile into their own hands to produce new kinds of learning opportunities. I

      Not everyone on the world has the same learning opportunities as others so it is important for educators to try and provide the same or something similar in terms of mobile education.

    3. into a world already transformed by mobile.3

      The world that we live in and the new generations are living in an era in which already has very powerful technology that makes things easier.

  2. Oct 2019
    1. In order to find genuine excitement in learning a subject, students need to be comfortable with the game.

      I think this applies to not only games but just about anything that people have to learn or want to do.

    2. he way we understand the expectations and promises of today’s game-based approaches will have a long-term impact on how we imagine and implement them in the future.

      Games for learning in the future will be something that is going to be expected for new generations to have.

    1. not only in some of the communities in which these cases arose, but in some of the states appearing as amici curiae, and in other states as well.

      They wanted change but not only in their own community but in all places that had segregated schools.

    1. The impact 1s greater when 1t has the sa11ctionPof the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group.

      Having this type of treatment being enforced by a law just truly shows that society at the time wanted to view them inferior to them.

    2. Their opponents, Just as certainly, were antagonistic to both the letter and the spirit of the Amendments and -wished them to have the most limited effect.

      I completely agree with this.

    1. Thus, throughout the Q2L curriculum, game design is used as a learning strategy for students.

      Challenges students into learning more about what they are learning in the game. Engages the player to learn more.

    2. this chapter goes on to describe a set of skills, con-cepts, literacies, and ways of knowing that shape the school’s situated approach to teaching and learning.

      Breakdown on what this section is about.

    1. A few students, however, knew very little about the political issues or related civic activities.

      Should these students who do not have the same knowledge over the topic be taught.

    1. For today’s children, however, these activities have all become mediated to a greater or lesser extent, while media itself has converged around mul-tifunctional screens that integrate voice and text communication, image and video, games, photography, music, television, print, and apps. The convergence of diverse forms of content into digital platforms has happened in tandem with the convergence or conglomeration of the companies that own them.

      I am not understanding this to well. What I get is that the companies that won certain games news social media etc have come together.

    2. n this era of economic contraction, disparities in access to educational, economic, and political opportunity have become starker, and continue to be tied in troubling ways to racial and ethnic background.

      Very sad to think that in our modern day and age that race and ethnicity are still very large factors in terms of education economic and political opportunity.

    3. In their everyday exchanges with peers and friends, young people are contributing, sharing and giving feedback in inclusive social experiences that are fluid and highly engaging.

      Can this all social media that has a group created or can engage in the topic.

    4. Without a proactive educational reform agenda that begins with questions of equity, leverages both in-school and out-of-school learning, and embraces the opportunities new media offer for learning, we risk a growth in educational alienation by our most vulnerable populations.

      In order fro kids or people not to feel alienated they need to have the same opportunity in and out of a classroom. Many people do not have the same kinds of opportunity as others.

    5. link a broader and more diverse range of culture, knowledge, and expertise to educational opportunity.

      It is important to always have many opinions from a not just one group but from a large diverse group.

    6. Connected learning looks to digital media and communications to: 1) offer engaging formats for interactivity and self-expression,

      It is really important to remember that connected learning is easily achieved through digital media.

    1. The power of the Universal Declaration is the power of ideas to change the world. It inspires us to continue working to ensure that all people can gain freedom, equality and dignity.

      In this modern era I think it is becoming very difficult for certain people of nationality to achieve this goal.

    2. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is enti-tled to realization,

      Is just anyone who participates in the United States Society? If so wouldn't it be easier fro someone to be able to live in this country.

    3. people of every colour, from every race and ethnic group; whether or not they are

      This just classifies that you always get this right regardless of not just race and ethnicity but many other things.

    1. Just as the emer-gence of written language changed oral traditions and theemergence of printed texts changed our relationship to writtenlanguage, the emergence of new digital modes of expressionchanges our relationship to printed texts.

      This is very interesting to think about. The way that we see new digital information really influence the way that we read printed written texts.

    2. What we realized is if we can’t get computers into the homes of our constituents and ourneighbors and of this neighborhood, there are children in those households who will not beable to keep up in the marketplace.They won’t be able to keep up with their schoolmates.

      Many people don't really realize that all kids can have access to some of the luxuries of others such as computers. This makes learning complex.

  3. Sep 2019
    1. . Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.

      Even in our modern day this statement is still not completely true.

    2. But when this great principle comes to be applied to the actual and various conditions of persons in society, it will not warrant the assertion

      Can this be explained a little better?

    3. ny passenger insisting on going into a coach or compartment to which by race he does not belong shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars,

      Did this also apply to a white man trying to sit in a place he does not belong?