…if you happened to be at a huge-land-grant institution in the past 7 years or so, you’ve heard some mutterings about a very secret situation. Science graduate students… highly trained, highly skilled, highly smart and highly unable to find a good job. The kind of job they were promised they’d have if only, if only, [...]
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Scientists? We don't need no scientists….
Posted in educational reform, Science on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The trouble with games in schools
Posted in educational reform, game design, Video games on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the EdubloggerCon Unconference this year, I ran into a woman who had a great insight for me. I told her a little bit about what I did (produce core science games for middle schoolers) and my ambitions for the conference (thinking about design consideration that will ease game implementation in the classroom, and she [...]