Graduates: <br><br>Part of being a scholar is reading the many opinion and scholarly works to reflect on the impact on society.  Here is one that should be on your reading list.<br><br>Dr. Franklin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Subject: Communicator.21 - October 2012<br>To: <a href="mailto:franklit@ohio.edu">franklit@ohio.edu</a><br><br><br>


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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">We have a lot of exciting things to share this month.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt">One of the most interesting ways game-based learning (GBL) is being implemented is with the use of </span><a style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt" shape="rect">Microsoft&#39;s Kinect</a><span style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt">. Kinect specifically is an accessory to the Xbox 360, where motion and gestures control game functions. From sports games, to &quot;hack and slash,&quot; the Kinect physically involves the player in gameplay. But </span><a style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt" shape="rect">why use it in the classroom</a><span style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt">? And how should you use it in the classroom? Today I present not only a great rationale for use the Kinect in the classroom, but also some specific ideas and resources for doing so.</span> <a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Xn3SvjPTvAWN4jBPa6GCcDEXYp32NDMptbksaJ6x5T3Bu-1i8feawWqlLni6N0f9b1YuUMQsA13bIPpyikZ2L-BOgON3Uyah6P_gbawPXkVBn6ft_NYopZXHpQl_IuC4zR_WmQhJLFjGFMT8tDNgiZbWYaJOieCjbmg-KOQQLaScJ6BlDUq-me6yjubKvBu_drnWH6j5NBdQ45cKpgPUzJRLZ3oBMBkTAQ5pWgFWNpZFFPjLTIcZDHz140k5EnQtQvTpJKd0nRy9THJEbNOJxxmhC4Rn0yEUcfLLw8WQtgw=" shape="rect" target="_blank">Keep reading </a></p>

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<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#567a26">In 1999, the Assessment of Science and Technology Achievement Project (ASAP), a partnership of a number of Ontario district school boards and YSISTE invited teachers to participate in the development of assessment materials to assist teachers in the assessment of the expectations in the new curriculum released in 1998 for Grades 1-8.</span></p>

<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#567a26">The new curriculum is more specific than previous practice with respect to both the knowledge and the skills that students are expected to develop and demonstrate in each grade. Further, the subject areas of science and technology are now combined. Some of the expectations focus on science and the inquiry process skill, some on technology and the design process skill, while others deal with relating science and technology to each other and to the world outside the school.</span> <a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Xn3SvjPTvAXkMWyrpofK5SLwIwsTuOPqxKTYviiZhV2mEbwvepysYT0yMqJFxYOttiygaWMvnfa2hLkIPFQeb_JsyTYXXlUfFQVBXvkfT9pZImzrmQH11zQaIM5PfnXpHbGqoGvyYrjiaKMwVnF_6xrkcP80bwJ9vOmrX06YWHdMLGgOw0ui-t3zRL_eIw3LGacBAtnAyPE-8B1LOtH_wTHCI9oBXlU57nWEWvPabsT6M-htvHyQSFrZar7NnbxV6wHoWWaAmOs=" shape="rect" target="_blank">Keep reading</a></p>

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<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&quot;Arts Enrichment in Afterschool,&quot; is one of four briefs, supported with funding from the MetLife Foundation, targeting issues that impact middle school students and how after-school programs may address them.</p>

<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">According to the most recent brief, due to limited financial resources and pressure to meet testing standards, schools have been prone to cut arts instruction. Drama and dance classes, in particular, have been scaled back, the brief reports, with schools with high percentages of minority and low income students reducing these classes more than others. <a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Xn3SvjPTvAVNyzNgg2sa-2891qN5jV_Risnm5jWlqsxND6saaruzGSGGSpIHsAJ6kUV2LSgbhjWIWP-BocWeXf1lYoAHj8mefxCCvdsl7mDcEIR8i57mom57GgygmDgw7zsdKD5WlpAt8w8N5vmAsdueYVPPU_EnveO9DD_M7YJJsR2Dk6T0mG8GZHN3eXiCZniAT6o3gVRPhFyPCeNrPqISgN72q0jWaRLjXVZ0qiYXYXd5gLkTBY4pk_BeoWTygpU0_c-4WHVjtNioBMC5u5qWxuAjRaaHSL5nRHl3CpInW3VaL1duxZL3-ZTcGLSU58RZvWILhYuhPKDic_WDHa3OslvzbrEHR8fAoT0j1NblGqUAmnBzDA==" target="_blank">Keep reading</a> </p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:#567a26">In March, a task force organized by the Council on Foreign Relations tried to reframe the problems of the nation&#39;s public schools as a threat to national security. &quot;Large, undereducated swaths of the population damage the ability of the United States to physically defend itself, protect its secure information, conduct diplomacy, and grow its economy,&quot; it warned, while also referring to students as &quot;human capital.&quot;</p>

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:#567a26">While </span><a style="color:rgb(86,122,38)" shape="rect">the report</a><span style="color:#567a26"> focused on K-12 education and called for better college preparedness, its instrumentalist rhetoric has remarkable affinities with that of critics who see higher education as outmoded. Conservative scholars like </span><a style="color:rgb(86,122,38)" shape="rect">Charles Murray</a><span style="color:#567a26">, </span><a style="color:rgb(86,122,38)" shape="rect">Richard Vedder</a><span style="color:#567a26"> and </span><a style="color:rgb(86,122,38)" shape="rect">Peter W. Wood</a><span style="color:#567a26"> ask why people destined for low-paying jobs should bother to pursue their education beyond high school, much less study philosophy, literature and history. The venture capitalist Peter Thiel has offered money to would-be entrepreneurs to quit college and focus on Web-based start-ups instead. Business school professors like</span><a style="color:rgb(86,122,38)" shape="rect">Clayton M. Christensen</a><span style="color:#567a26"> tell us that &quot;disruptive innovation&quot; is causing liberal-arts learning to be &quot;disintermediated&quot; so as to deliver just what the &quot;end user&quot; needs.</span> <a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Xn3SvjPTvAU6b2Lj7gn48iKkOKIo1tSpv29XpDPQwjVvcsp7Am7In-DZuijpDSPYejp-fWY3_1f62UO3jvdj-Zt_kEtAOCycYqfbN9p827fxO2tujM5nn_qMWiv4fLenTN_UnXdXwAkfUosAnM-3vCdKouRXA6mBrXPskubPBM2V4FCzeFCYm_b07S7aYVCi6OsTQ93rMXzLfjp5nunUyX0TzXXGqRjLEjRrs4x_SS8rz9JA7VCv7u3jNdDOjQCjae2Sr5llFG6-JWdhFzb3VL8hM4Yvldm4CVrKIFozDN_bgYTeHxisITI0S1AyVhX1q6eMXyI6qktkAt2DApZ8fnUblZoxeAEe2MtRIwuYsEqQIivZ4IPaChBuBt5AUm42" shape="rect" target="_blank">Keep reading</a></p>

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<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">School leaders recognize this better than anyone. As they face escalating demands for accountability, the rise in mobile-learning technologies, shrinking resources, implementation of Common Core Standards, the balancing of instruction and assessment - the list is seemingly endless - leaders are grappling with identifying pragmatic solutions to these digital age dilemmas.</p>

<p style="color:#567a26;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Meeting these challenges requires two things: strong leadership and collaborative problem solving. And while technology itself is not a panacea, when used effectively it can provide powerful tools for addressing myriad challenges facing schools today. <a style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Xn3SvjPTvAVAgQX5LRSGGWQk25u_6k8kT3LrCDn7QNsoqU93rgoDWxe72eP8HHDcEaQ_geYYGyBHEBIwPj98hlcoyGDjriA1uumGRAvHmPdezbIIjXl9ocUD9PIfdOtxesHNh8uGdIvMjd5CBUaQF8PTQK4qlmiFtam9XJUMH64c0HdlTEMzezCWwlhExqIAuzWAEVi3w8xqo7eiaR9f46e9jbu5ME0ivDjjqkxqxBSeab1chVHqQROXbyFKvmsaDt3WBD3Oy8WCWwTbID_VqoBptzvgGIMWOwH_BjLg8h3pyBhx9nAsbo8WGXMZ7N2XQOHC1oCmyHdPKLi2GM7ri2LFDTFeNGo1Nm4H-DpC2NRgwHvzgBbNspAxAflXpt1fpoMgh88RgpUmvb81A1znBA==" target="_blank">Keep reading</a></p>

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