Console Learning

Many thanks to Matt Jones at Nokia for this link to Nesta Future Lab's literature review in games and learning. He points out a list of 'new vs old' tensions that young ludic learners are imposing on their creaky education environments:

• twitch speed vs conventional speed

• parallel processing vs linear processing

• graphics first vs text first

• random access vs step by step

• connected vs standalone

• active vs passive

• play vs work

• payoff vs patience

• fantasy vs reality

• technology as friend vs technology as foe.

Schematic, but useful. I'm hoping to engage more in this area in coming months.