Katie Shaw: Digital divide in low income schools and bridging the gap between knowledge and access
I really liked the idea of presenting your paper as a proposal to bridging the digital divide gap between access and information knowledge. I have read a lot of material pointing towards technology and its effects on learning. Children today are queued to be literate powerhouses with the tools that technology provides. Assertively addressing this issue in our schools with teachers and administrators, students and parents and even our communities needs collective support and encouragement. The benefits to everyone is enormous.
Beau Yancy: Gaming…The final frontier
Great presentation Beau! It’s easy to overlook how much gaming in any form has been incorporated into our everyday lives, even for someone like me who doesn’t do much gaming in the video gaming sense. Ubiquitous computing puts various gaming skills into action. I think you’re right in saying that technology feeds off of the gaming community. What was once considered an isolating and non-productive past time has become a multi-million dollar industry with a means to a creative end. There has been extensive research how gaming actually helps with various learning and teaching aspects. The benefits continue to multiply as gaming theories and components are finding their way into areas of education and medicine. I liked your DaVinci example and I have seen other examples of how aspects of gaming are helping young surgeons succeed at new robotics in surgery.
James Cavanaugh: Gaming
I really liked your correlation between the blind and Braille/gaming and (3D) learning. Games are proving to be useful in developing new areas of the brain, how we learn and how that ties into our community and cultural understanding of gaming. The attitudes that teachers and school administrators have towards the effects of gaming is beginning to shift and I think you could find tons of information on this.
Hans Wellenbrock: Social networks bridging the chasm
Wow Hans…you look just like your Granddad, only whiter! You had some really good ideas in your presentation but I really felt like the connection between you and your grandparents was a great example of how the generational gap in the digital divide could be bridged. I know my grandparents have computers and cell phones, but I don’t know their extent of use, if it’s any more of a pastime to them or just another gadget to log into occasionally. (We still only talk on the phone even though my grandma has a FB page.) Maybe focusing on that aspect of social networking/bridging the gap is the way to go? Great presentation though!
Spencer Towne: Do games generate better soldiers?
Wow! What a great presentation. Since I’m not much of a gamer I cannot fully relate to the immersion that takes place when engaged in any video game, but I think you have a great topic that holds a lot of weight. It never occurred to me that the military might possibly make use of the gaming community for possible recruitments and how gaming might affect training. That is to say, I have no doubts that simulation programs are available and used in military training but to what extent and to what effects? You made some very good points about potential risks and consequences and I think you have the makings for a very good paper.
I really liked what you had to say. That children and teachers both need the training to excell and it is nice that education is keeping up with the times.
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