Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged gaming
Technology to push teachers
Jun 5th
Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“
Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.”
Absolutely!
What excites me is not the Microsoft Surface itself but the technology. My favorite part of the video below is the part where the guy is standing and playing with Google Earth on a wall, or flat surface. That is the technology that More >
Tonight’s homework…play your Wii
Dec 19th
How far away are we in education from actually having computer games that attract students? I want to know of the first school that stops looking at computer games and starts looking at Wii and PS3 as a way for students to learn in a digital world. From the Detroit Free Press comes an article “Games of learning take action to lure kids.” All I can say is…it’s about time!
Has anyone looked at educational games lately? I find them boring and I don’t have a Wii or PS3 waiting for me at home or under the Christmas Tree. According to the More >
Watching the Millennials in action part 2
Nov 8th
The middle schoolers of teentek, and all our middle schoolers for that matter, are HUGE into this flash game.
Monday I couldn’t keep the boys off of it. Every time I turned aroundsomeone had it open and was playing it. So I took a step back into thecorner of the room and just watched (Seriously…I went and stood inthe corner!) I watched as they slowly opened the game back up andstarted playing, I observed them, watching their actions andinteractions with the game:
“You made this level?”“Yep!”“How’d you do that?”“There’s a level builder you can download and create your own levels for the More >
