To continue last year’s goal-setting and teamwork practice with New Super Mario Bros Wii, this year we’re going to mash up Mario Kart and cycling teams.
Last year we used a lives-lost-per-level ratio to determine which teams of players were most efficient at preserving one another’s lives. Teams with more fluent players were sometimes at an [...]
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Posted 30 September 2010
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Thanks to Cooperative Catalyst (@coopcatalyst) I’ve been experimenting with self-directed learning in the public school classroom for the past three weeks. I’ve set aside 19.8% of class time for self-directed learning during a 20-25 minute station three times weekly. I’m 80.1% shy of my goal, but it’s a start.
Using a graphic organizer, students have self-identified [...]
