Archive for July, 2009
A vision of students today?
I enjoyed reading the Chronicle article Cathy posted yesterday, and agree wholeheartedly that there is great value in “spending time socializing students to the type of interaction that the technology can facilitate”. I also wonder how we might better design interactions that align more closely with some of the ways of knowing and doing that [...]
Game Theory and Technology
This is my first official post on the Penn Engaging Students through Technology blog so I’d like to quickly introduce myself. My name is Erin Murphy and I work for a group at Wharton Computing called the Learning Lab. Each year the Learning Lab receives proposals from Wharton professors to develop web-based applications that extend [...]
Does Boredom Really Leave Classrooms When Computers Leave?
This week The Chronicle’s information technology section describes the crusade of Southern Methodist University’s dean Jose A. Bowen against PowerPoint. You can read more here
http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/
(Thanks to Ian Petrie the new Associate Director at CTL for giving me the heads up on this one.)
The gist of the article is that Bowen is removing computers and [...]
Penn’s new Second Life campus under construction
Did you know that ISC is building a replica of the Penn campus in Second Life? Thanks to the annual IT Staff convention, I learned about this new project headed by Deke Kassabian. Deke will be giving a guided tour of the new building project here at the Weigle Information Commons at a WICshop on [...]
