Learning, Gaming and Searching

Well, what can I say? Who knew how digitally illiterate I really was until tonight? How terribly neanderthal my Google Searches were. It is nice to know how to better use that tool, and recognize how to access information that was once lost in the sea of the world wide web (or now as I have learned, lost on the Google Index). I thought the video on the Gaming school was interesting. It didn't necessarily make me want to teach gaming, but it did help to recognize that changing your point of view can do so much for kids in the classroom. All games are journeys. Education is a journey. Why do we call lessons lessons? Why don't we call them journeys. They are journeys where kids are discovering how to solve math problems, science questions, literature perspectives. The journey happens in the classroom and out of the classroom. I am going to call my lessons journeys when I have my own classroom. So, what is our journey for today? Maybe by then all of these digital badges will be available to us! I am so glad to know where to find plans for these journeys on sites like edutopia.org. I guess that was my a-ha for today. Happy searching, everyone!