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Did that influence your approach to games? Montessori education is about learning through play and experience and your games seem to echo that idea. WW: Yes, I think it did, in a number of ways. It became more overt, more conscious to me later in life, as I got interested in Maria Montessori and her…
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UCLA Games for Change: Making Games for Popular Education
UCLA Games for Change: Making Games for Popular Education dinosaurparty: Here’s the research blog for a game design project I’ve been working on! It’s been tons of fun.
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By Steve Delahoyde on May 11, 2011 11:02 AM For anyone who has ever pursued a degree in the arts, known someone who has or is currently enrolled, or heck, ever had a conversation with anyone about higher education, the conventional wisdom is that an arts degree is, in addition to learning about and understanding…
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Tinkering
Tinkering essayist: Mark Grief on Walt Disney At an early point in his career, probably no later than 1930, Walt Disney lost the ability to draw what he wanted his cartoon characters to look like or his animations to do. So he began to act his cartoons out. In story meetings with his growing staff…
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The move to do away with grade levels throughout the Adams County School District began three years ago. Standards-based learning, as it’s called, is founded on the belief that every child learns in different ways and at different speeds. With the school district on an academic watch list, educators here were eager to reverse the…
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Font Sizing with rem
Font Sizing with rem petervidani: cameronmoll: Jonathan Snook: CSS3 introduces a few new units, including the rem unit, which stands for “root em”. If this hasn’t put you to sleep yet, then let’s look at how rem works. The em unit is relative to the font-size of the parent, which causes the compounding issue. The…
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We should think of education as a kind of intellectual cross-training that leads to many more things than at any one moment you could possibly know would be useful. The most powerful education generates further curiosity, new needs, experiences to meet those needs, more curiosity and so on. Education isn’t just an object that you…
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Yesterday’s conceptual art is today’s tumblr meme Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
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And, finally, literature cannot be saved, because literature saves us. When it no longer saves us, it is no longer literature. Perhaps it was once and has lost its relevance; perhaps it never was; the distinction is one we can and should argue about, and if we don’t reach a conclusion that’s a good sign,…
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WW: I read a lot of books, and occasionally those books, or certain subjects or approaches, become very interesting to me. Generally they’re not that accessible to the wider audience, so I’m trying to make it more accessible. It’s almost more of a translation function. I’ve always been interested in science, psychology, things like engineering…