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Playing at Orientation: Interview with the Designers of “The Parasite” at University of Chicago

ProfHacker

Gradually, we began to talk about how we might implement an ARG at a university, given that there was already suggestive data and observations that the form might be a useful platform for motivating collaborative learning, teaching digital literacies, sharing resources, and inviting participants to engage in difficult and complex conversations.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. It demands that technologies always move forward along it.

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Freedom dreaming and reflective teaching practices

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Instead of going in and being like, “I need you all to fill out this stuff for me,” meaning like surveys (which is okay, because there’s a time and place for those things), it’s more about: “I need us to start to think about who we are, how we’re going to interact, how we will engage with one another and why.”