College Courses as Live Games
An instructor at Indiana University has replaced the A-F grading system in the courses he is teaching with a point system based on experience points.
Category: Scholarly Pursuits
Risks and Ethics of Training and Educating in Second Life
Several pieces have been floating around in the last week or so on virtual crime. It centers around a basic question: is interpersonal crime committed in a virtual space really crime if there is no real-world corollary?
Exploring the School Spying Scandal
There’s been a lot of interest in one of the cases I mentioned last week in which it was discovered that school officials were spying on kids and their families in their own homes by surreptitiously activating webcams on school-provided laptops.
Privacy, Usage Rights, and Hidden Cameras
Three privacy and online rights pieces have come up in the last couple of weeks, and I thought I’d share them all at once.
Fear of New Technology
The trick is to stay familiar with new technologies such that you are aware of what they offer in case you need them while still maintaining a level head when making implementation decisions.
How Prepared Is Too Prepared?
Spending $300 million to buy 3D projectors that no one really needs is not responsible spending. Not in school districts, and definitely not in a business.