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Gaming and Informal learning report – from “Engineering Play…”

Mimi Ito, a MacArthur colleague, writes about the sociocultural contexts of game based learning. We're excited to check out her book, Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning). There are some great snippets that we'll excerpt...
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Foundations for a new science of [informal] learning

You know... I don't think it's heretical to think that we're building an app that has some serious mass appeal, while we think that our initial/early adopters will be highschool through Gen Y. Last week, Vince sent us this great study that validates our research about interest nets. There are...
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When do you advise or guide someone?

we're busy trying to figure out what the guest experience is going to look like on bettr@ and what the hook might be to get someone to join an already awesome content aggregation site. obviously, we think that guidance and mentorship is a huge part of informal learning, but is...
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