Losing Sleep » Education http://crios.info Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:53:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A Vision of Students Today… http://crios.info/2007/10/24/a-vision-of-students-today/ http://crios.info/2007/10/24/a-vision-of-students-today/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:12:23 +0000 Chris http://crios.info/2007/10/24/a-vision-of-students-today/
A colleague of mine pointed me toward this youtube video. I was really fascinated with how they touched on so many topics and seemed to drive so many points home.

]]> http://crios.info/2007/10/24/a-vision-of-students-today/feed/ 0 From Pickles to Airplanes… WikiRacing. http://crios.info/2007/09/18/from-pickles-to-airplanes-wikiracing/ http://crios.info/2007/09/18/from-pickles-to-airplanes-wikiracing/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:41:06 +0000 Chris http://crios.info/2007/09/18/from-pickles-to-airplanes-wikiracing/ Wikirace Logo1 After school let out today I was plugging away at some reading I have to do for my class when I noticed that the students in the lab were eerily quiet. When kids get quiet I tend to get paranoid and think they are up to something so I wandered into the room to see what they were up to. They all were mesmerized by two of the students who were swiftly navigating through Wikipedia. I went over to their teacher and asked him what they were doing.

“They’re Wikiracing.” “They’re what?”

“Wikiracing. They start at the same page and then have to navigate to a random page using links on their current page. No searching allowed.”

I had never heard of this before so I was really amazed by this game. The kids probably played it for 15 or 20 minutes more and they were totally into it. I want to play.

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