Monday, October 4, 2010

Technology promotes educational change

Quest to Learn, is a public middle school located in New York City, which employs a curriculum centered upon multimedia video games for group learning. The middle school students create podcasts, edit videos, play video games, and utilize other technologies to promote interdisciplinary learning.

The school, Quest to Learn, states that it is a "school for digital kids. It is a community where students learn to see the world as composed of many different kinds of systems." source http://q2l.org/

The video clip below titled "Games Theory" from the New York Times magazine posted online September 15, 2010 describes this school and documents the educational rationale for using technology as the cornerstone of Quest to Learn.






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