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Elizabeth Lawley: “Just Press Play” — Adding a Game Layer to the Undergraduate Experience
I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t aware of Professor Elizabeth Lawley. Ten years ago, there weren’t many tenure-track academics who were also active bloggers, avid gamers, and social media researchers. Now Professor of Interactive Games and Media at Rochester Institute of Technology, Lawley has chaired the annual invitation-only “Social Computing Symposium” sponsored by Microsoft Research since 2006 -- before the term “social media” emerged.… more
Five Elements to Help Redefine Public Ed
Imagine we redefine public education so that Dewey’s democratic society is co-created ongoingly, bettering each moment we practice it.
The purpose of public education is a democratic society -- John Dewey… more
Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society
Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need to be re-thought and refigured to produce new accounts of what it means to be human, to be friends, and to be connected in our networked societies.… more