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| Topic: | How can you focus students on learning rather than gaming? |
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| Subject: | RE: How can you focus students on learning rather than gaming? |
| Author: | GSC |
| Date: | Jul 3 2006 |
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> I believe that a challenge for students would be that they may feel
> that they are playing games and not learning. There is an advantage
> to that for the students and the teacher, the teacher can get
> creative with this tool, aligning assessments and curriculum to the
> tool.
> How would you align this to your specific math curriculum?
There is available a practical means of creating an effective 'Action Plan' for
any Mission chosen. The Mission could be something like: "To ensure that my
students properly focus on learning math for the set curriculum - even while
they may play games on the computer to stimulate their interest". (The teacher
would develop an action plan for approximately that Mission, while students
could develop their own action plans for Missions they articulate for
themselves, perhaps with some help from their teacher).
Check out documents uploaded at http://www.i-sum.com for a 'systems design'
approach to the issue of creating action planning for any Mission. If, on
reading those documents, you are interested/intrigued by my claims about the
process I describe, let me know and I shall be happy to invite you to join a
group where we can discuss practically how you can create your own action plan
for the issue. At this group, I've made available for free download the
prototype software that realizes the systems process I recommend. Math teachers
who are interested may like to create their own tools (or contribute to creating
specific tools) based on the systems problem-solving process described.
There is a (very) little learning involved in using the tools described - and
there is a fair bit of 'unlearning' involved.
GSC
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