As part of my keen interest in game design, I learned about a school right here in New York City that implements a game design type of curriculum in schools.

Here is a link to that article:

Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19video-t.html?...all

By SARA CORBETT. Published: September 15, 2010. E-Mail; Print. Reprints. One morning last winter I watched a middle-school teacher named Al Doyle give a ...

Question for the crowd: What are your reactions to this article? Would you want to send your child to such a school?

Part of my interest in education and technology stems from a book I read entitled The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. His book, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize is based off an article he wrote entitled: Is Google Making us Stupid?

Here is a link to that article. I highly recommend the book too.

 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/#.T9grT5WEbYc.email

Question for discussion: Do you think the internet is making us stupid, or simply smarter in different ways?

As one of my inspirations for this blog, I feel it is only right to give credit to Cathy Davidson who inspired me to open this blog through her wise words in the book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.

The link on the side is a list of other blogs from the same site.

Here is a direct link to her blog http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson

Here are some websites I have especially interesting and informative on these topics:

I have listed them on the side bar as well for quick future reference:

Cathy Davidson's organization called HASTAC where you can find a link to her blog is

http://hastac.org

Another one is about Jane Mcgonigal, who is a world famous game designer. Her website is

http://janemcgonigal.com/


Another blog I follow is from CNN called Schools of Thought. The link for this is http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/

Here is the first post of a new blog I have been wanting to start for a while. In many ways, I feel that who am I to start a blog, and who really cares what I have to say?

However, as a result of a very inspirational book I just read called Now You See It, by Cathy Davidson, I have plunged forward and opened this blog. The point and goal of this blog is to facilitate discussion about many educational ideas in general, and about game design in particular.

We are always learning, and I am by no means an authority on any of these topics at this point. However, I feel that this blog gives me the chance to share many of my thoughts which will in turn facilitate a discussion that will benefit everyone.

Enjoy and share your thoughts. As Cathy Davidson writes, we all learn from each other.