EduBacon is a place I have envisioned for open friendly discussion towards improving education and learning situations. As a game designer and college student, not to mention brilliant and over all creative … eh, er, hmmm… , well I think I’ve got a pretty good perspective on the issues. While paying attention to the different discussions and efforts, I agreed with the idea that we need to innovate how we discuss these ideas with our ideas, because these discussions are learning opportunities. That’s what this idea has come out of, and my inability to attend the events and conventions where a bunch of cool things happen.
To open the doors right, I’m running a blogging event. At my blog Learning Science Meets Game Design I have been blogging about things like the topics for the event and the Edubacon Blogging event itself. Before starting the blogging event I’m going to make several posts about getting things done, because innovative and transformative efforts are generally hard to get going and keep going. While I’m making those, it’s time to spread the word, start the discussions and make suggestions. In other words, the interaction starts now.
This will go on for two weeks, because I don’t want to compete with the Serious Games Jam happening next week. Plus I’m going to be trying to win the Nintendo DS that goes to the person who garners the most reputation points, “Karma”. Last time was very interesting to see happen. With only a single day to participate I was still quoted twice in the summary that is available to all who sign up to participate in the Serious Games Jam. What do you think you’ll be able to contribute?
After that, this event will get going full steam. With the posts, comments and links we will be able to create a good resource for those interested in learning more about possible directions and issues education has. It should be useful to those interesting in getting into these discussions and long time participants alike. For this reason I intend to create a summary post for each topic covered during this event. As the weeks go by more posts, comments and discussions will happen and we will collectively build a resource for any who are interested. It will also be in a format that shows how the different views and ideas came to be, rather than just saying what they are. In essence, it’s putting the concepts that many agree should be used in education into use to teach and guide people on these topics. I’m all for bringing in new voices as some have wondered where the student voices are.
It takes more than just talking about the ideas to get things done, but without talk that shares the ideas it will take so much longer to get anywhere. So, let’s talk, share and put our ideas into action. Then we can get things happening and have results to itterate our ideas. Till then, take a look at some posts on getting things done that I’ve already made to get a taste of what’s to come in the next couple weeks.
Getting Things Done:
* Why Should We?
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2009/04/why-should-we.html
* Iteration and Prototyping
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/10/iteration-and-prototyping.html
* Keeping People Involved
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/11/keeping-people-involved.html
* Sharing Inside and Outside the Classroom
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/11/sharing-inside-and-outside-classroom.html
* Designing Systems for Sharing
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2009/04/designing-systems-for-sharing.html
* Loosely Connected to Who?
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/11/loosely-connected-to-who.html
* How you Say, What They Think
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/11/how-you-say-what-they-think.html
* Too Serious?
http://blog.igenoukan.com/2008/12/to-serious.html
* Rules of Productivity
http://lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-presentation.html
There are plenty more links and resources on getting things done to come, so stay tuned.
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