Archive for December, 2009

Barab: Kids & Learning

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Dr. Barab discusses some of the prime reasons why virtual learning situations such as in Quest Atlantis are better received by kids than typical classroom learning situations. Concepts that intersect in QA are educational instances involving activity, narrative context, trying on identities, agency, and consequentiality. A key problem in schools might be described as a [...]