Many of the ideas we've talked about over the years in these pages are in the process of becoming thoroughly mainstream, as evidenced by this paper on blags and games in learning from the Brookings Institute. It's about what you would expect from an arms-length report (full PDF) - it's current to 2008, it cites people that you'll recognize from the popular press, it throws in a few 'gee whiz' statements ("professors see social media as important tools for instruction"), it makes odd mistakes ("a new programming language known as Scratch"), and extols an odd conservatism ("Educators can take advantage of trusted networks to engage students and help them learn important skills and concepts" (trusted? really?)). Via Joanne Jacobs, who adds, "College students are becoming "free-range learners," concludes a new study by Glenda Morgan."
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