16 MAR 2014 by ideonexus
The Nintendo Effect
Technology can play an important role, but we haven’t had the time or wherewithal to explore it fully. I’m waiting for a breakthrough process, which I think may happen in mathematics. The people at Nintendo figured out billions of dollars ago that you pull kids in, you get them engaged, and that’s the model: engagement of intensive focused effort. The result is rapid incremental development of new skills and capabilities. These kids operate at a speed and accuracy level unheard of outsi...Folksonomies: education gamification
Folksonomies: education gamification
Nintendo has tapped into the secret of keeping kids engaged for hours.
01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Big History as a Fable Part II
Sex and death evolved – processes that vastly increased the rate of natural selection. Some organisms evolved hard parts, climbed onto, and survived on the land. The pace of production of more complex forms accelerated. Flight evolved. Enormous four-legged beasts thundered across the steaming jungles. Small beasts emerged, born live, instead of in hard-shelled containers filled with replicas of the early oceans. They survived through swiftness and cunning – and increasingly long periods i...Folksonomies: wonder big history
Folksonomies: wonder big history
Carl Sagan's account of the history of our Universe continued.