The Hundred Book Challenge

Recently, I went to a public school in Camden for my field experience as an education major.  While there we learned about a new initiative that the Camden schools are using called the “100 Book Challenge.”  The goal of this program is to get elementary school students to read more and thus expand their education.  [...]

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Video Games in schools

There is an interesting article by a man named James Gee titled “Semiotic Domains Is Playing Video Games A ‘Waste of Time’.  In this article Gee discusses how video games are just another form of literacy and have a broader impact than people realize.  For example Gee mentions in his article that those who become [...]

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