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POPSGame Theory - an example of the future of the book Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, I created this website as a way to think to about games. Games, as in computer games, are the subject of my next book, GAM3R 7H30RY. I am interested in two questions. 1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in? 2. can there be a critical theory of games?
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POPSPatent Busting Project The Patent Busting Project provides a great vehicle for mounting a systematic legal challenge to bogus patents. Does the Blackboard patent qualify?
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POPSReport from the National Summit on School Design Issued This new resource for community leaders, educators and designers provides eight recommendations to help create schools that encourage student achievement and stronger communities. The 70-page Report from the National Summit on School Design is intended to help communities make better decisions about the approximately $30 billion spent annually on building and renovating school facilities in the United States. The report’s recommendations reflect the unprecedented collaboration of more than 200 public, private, and civic sector leaders and experts who participated in the three-day National Summit on School Design late last year, which was presented by the American Architectural Foundation and KnowledgeWorks Foundation.
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POPSProject Inkwell drafts specs for school tech Hoping to accelerate the adoption and deployment of age-appropriate, one-to-one computing devices in K-12 schools, the members of Project Inkwell say a longstanding disconnect between the education community and technology manufacturers has put schools in the difficult position of taking solutions designed for the business world and adapting them to meet the unique needs of students.
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POPSLearning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children’s education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty-wage work. Learning Power documents a radical approach to school reform.
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