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The head of Universal Music France talked about just how much money was necessary to nurture new talent. DIdn’t Barlow understand economics? “If you’re spending $5 billion on new artists, we’re not getting our money’s worth,” Barlow cracked, and he reframed his argument in economic terms of scarcity and abundance. “Trying to optimize towards scarcity,…
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Here’s an example: The industrial age worked hard to separate “work” from “home.” Everything about the common or public schools started in the mid-nineteenth century reinforced that division: from the school bell ringing for each child at the same time of day, of each child entering school at age 6 whether they were ready or…
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i knew then, and i affirm now, that to get into this industry, you need to be a skilled at one of two things: art or programming. It’s very unusual to skip the queue, so don’t hold out hope. Instead, devote yourself to being useful or talented at something. Lesson: Is this really your dream?…
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4. We have five senses. Sure, sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch are the big ones. But we have many other ways of sensing the world and our place in it. Proprioception is a sense of how our bodies are positioned. Nociception is a sense of pain. We also have a sense of balance—the inner…
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(via Isaac Asimov On Libraries [PIC])
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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…