tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post3702178501160526667..comments2023-10-30T04:55:53.893-05:00Comments on The Next Generation of Educational Leadership: Who Teaches Digital Natives to...Nathan Barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12572151680823603108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-5236960701363320842008-10-12T15:03:00.000-05:002008-10-12T15:03:00.000-05:00Jim, you're absolutely right. Age of Empires or M...Jim, you're absolutely right. Age of Empires or Medal of Honor would spice up a classroom lesson. How about any number of Sid Meier's games in the history classroom, too? For many kids, games like those with well-designed lessons to accompany the games would be an easy way to keep them engaged and to hook them on history. Talk about interactivity...Nathan Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12572151680823603108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-11253412264518937942008-10-06T22:23:00.000-05:002008-10-06T22:23:00.000-05:00But to respond to your post, I guess they figure h...But to respond to your post, I guess they figure how how to make things work that they have an interest in. I guess it goes to the whole relivence issue of education. If people find something relevent then they persue it. If we can figure out how to get them to take an interest in schoolwork, they would figure that out on their own as well. I'm sure there are kids who would spend some of their free time researching math or literature or history, but I'm sure there are more kids trying to look up cheat code for video games. We'd be millionaires if we could figure out hoe to do it. Would playing Medal of Honor count for studying WWII? or Age of Empires? That would make history class a lot more fun. :)Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05307533605859666749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-56701410230768339062008-10-06T22:13:00.000-05:002008-10-06T22:13:00.000-05:00NathanI've started a wiki http://teacherguild.wiki...Nathan<BR/>I've started a wiki http://teacherguild.wikispaces.com/<BR/>see if you can join it.<BR/>I'm trying to get my students to work together to do some reviewing. I showed them the wiki on friday, but so far no one is working with it. I think I have it set up correctly.<BR/>I'm hoping these digital natives will take it and run with it.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05307533605859666749noreply@blogger.com