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Is Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
The answer, in short, is yet … but not in the classroom … and don’t say “education”.
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Gaming Can Make a Better World – Jane McGonigal
While Gladwell’s notion that ‘10,000 hours makes a virtuoso’ has been debunked, there’s definitely potential behind the idea that gamers can become virtuosos. Gaming needs to be recognised as a valid intellectual output and can make a genuine contribution to making a better world.
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TED Talk – Sugata Mitra – Build a school in the cloud
Mitra talks about the history of education and the change required to transform schools from knowledge based to skills based. He asserts that the education system is obsolete and, infact, knowledge is obsolete. He wants to help students learn independently of schools.