In 2009, a Swedish video gamer, programmer and designer known as “Notch” demonstrated Minecraft – a 16-bit world where players build and craft structures. Minecraft looks crude and blocky, like giant, digital Lego pieces. Still, the simplistic visual overlay of blocks and cubes underwrites a rich, deep and complex system of resource management, construction and….
Author: Leigh Cassell
Video Game Learning
If computers change the way we live, the way we work, and the way we play, it is easy to imagine that computers will change the way we think and learn. Computer learning can be defined as the use of any computer or computer aided technology in an educational context. We have seen computers used….
Tablets in Grade 2
My colleagues and I are currently working on a project that is moving our students closer to 1-1 learning, with each pair of students sharing a tablet on a daily basis. The focus of our Technology Learning Community is to integrate digital literacy into all subject areas by teaching our students how to blog, as well….
