Games and One Big Room
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 10:43PM My column about why we ought to have games in schools is now posted at Education World. (if it sounds somewhat familiar, it's a polished version of comments from earlier Blue Skunk entries.)
Because of the conversation about filtering and intellectual freedom, I re-read my columns "One Big Room" which appeared earlier at Education World in 2006 and Maintaining Intellectual Freedom in a Filtered World that was in Leading & Learning, 2005. Amazing - both still seem to make sense to me. And had less "rant" about them.
I did read a remark somewhere that a tech director felt he would be fired if any student in his district accessed inappropriate materials on the Internet. Hmmm, I feel a blog entry formulating...
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At the Minnesota state library/tech conference (MEMO) at a beautiful resort near Brainerd.
Looking forward to hearing the always stimulating Jamie McKenzie's keynote and it is nice to get caught up with AASL President Sara Kelly Johns who is visiting our conference.
I have only one breakout session to give so I get to listen and learn most of today and tomorrow from my fellow Minnesotans!
Reader Comments (1)
Doug - nice to see your post all concise in Education World.I had the opportunity to be with our superintendent at a conference this week. She shared with me that she hates that on Fridays she sees teachers showing movies, but she thinks that it is great for students to play games, whether online or board games. It is great that we have administrators who understand the value of games for learning. Your list is excellent. Thank you for so clearly outlining the reasons! Tina