Recreation Time

The Pearson Foundation has released another potentially groundbreaking study on digital media and learning today: “The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy”
I have to admit I’ve only read the summary so far, but the big findings, in particular mobiles as the only platform for many youth raise an important question. If youth are increasingly [...]

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I particularly like the moment when we wait for the text message to be received.
RFID Rube Goldberg device – Boing Boing.

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Epeus’ epigone: How Twitter works in theory is a really nice introduction to the social dimensions of the communicrack that is twitter. I’m currently working on a variety of twitter-based game projects with the design group Local No. 12 and find the design constraints of working with 140 characters of text super interesting.
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An article in the NY Times yesterday, “Whiffle Hurling? Bag Tag? Hey, It’s Art”
talks about the growing phenomenon of “art sports”. This is particularly coincidental since today I’m going to go playtest an “art sport” designed by Eric Zimmerman called “Grid Ball”. It will be making its debut at the Come Out and Play Festival [...]

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This is a really nice presentation by Trebor Scholz with lots of great resources for social-mediatizing your classes. And — Trebor just joined The New School this semester — score!
Social Media for Higher Education
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Social Media for Higher Education.

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It’s really nice to hear the giants talking about these things — and from what I’m hearing from friends returning from GDC, social games, indie games and new models for distribution are the big thematic takeaways. I sense a revolution on the way…
Gamasutra – News – GDC: Wright, Molyneux, Gordon, and Lanning on Games and [...]

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Danah Boyd’s talk at Microsoft about social media is a sharp read on what’s happening out there in myfacespacebookland:  “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”.

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