http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/ Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Gail Mastin Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:39:23 +0000 http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/#comment-24 Great idea, I love it. Great idea, I love it.

]]> http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Scott Walker Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:08:29 +0000 http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/#comment-11 Thanks for the comment! I considered not posting this one due to it's complexity. Few will read this and give it a go because of this. But I wanted it to spark ideas in those that read it. I've been hanging around a community called classroom 2.0(http://classroom20.ning.com/) lately, and they do things like this. I read all the time about teachers that have their students podcasting, blogging, and building their own wiki sites-one teacher was looking for teachers in other countries to collaborate on a website with her kids from Australia! One teacher that described it had her elementary chaps blogging!!! Can you imagine being a fourth or sixth grader and having an article that you wrote being accessible to people all over the world?!?! Thanks for the comment! I considered not posting this one due to it’s complexity. Few will read this and give it a go because of this. But I wanted it to spark ideas in those that read it. I’ve been hanging around a community called classroom 2.0(http://classroom20.ning.com/) lately, and they do things like this. I read all the time about teachers that have their students podcasting, blogging, and building their own wiki sites-one teacher was looking for teachers in other countries to collaborate on a website with her kids from Australia! One teacher that described it had her elementary chaps blogging!!! Can you imagine being a fourth or sixth grader and having an article that you wrote being accessible to people all over the world?!?!

]]> http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/comment-page-1/#comment-10 D Jones Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:11:33 +0000 http://teachertechblog.com/the-gaming-teacher/64/#comment-10 The Guitar Hero lesson seemed very complex and would require extensive setup as well as several classes to cover, but it seems to me that the students would be really into it and get so much more out of that lesson than a traditional one. The connections between the elements of the game and other disciplines, primarily music, make the lesson only that much easier for the students to relate to. The only big problem I can foresee would be the students who are very competitive and have played this game before; they would be impatient with other students who haven't experienced the game yet. I'm sure, though, that a modification or two (perhaps dividing into teams? You mentioned leadership earlier) would resolve such an issue. The Guitar Hero lesson seemed very complex and would require extensive setup as well as several classes to cover, but it seems to me that the students would be really into it and get so much more out of that lesson than a traditional one. The connections between the elements of the game and other disciplines, primarily music, make the lesson only that much easier for the students to relate to. The only big problem I can foresee would be the students who are very competitive and have played this game before; they would be impatient with other students who haven’t experienced the game yet. I’m sure, though, that a modification or two (perhaps dividing into teams? You mentioned leadership earlier) would resolve such an issue.

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