DEN'ing in Georgia

I’m in Atlanta, Georgia for the Discovery Educator Southeast Regional Institute (tag: denri & denri06). I was able to visit some old friends and to make some new ones last night at a desert social. I’m sorry that I didn’t take any pictures of the food. There were some awesome chocolate brownies, a totally rich dark chocolate cake, and I swear I think a saw a layer of milk chocolate in the cheesecake — and I didn’t eat any of it. I’m practicing restraint, and,quite frankly, feel really foolish doing it. But there it is.

One of the things that was interesting to me was the way that educators are beginning to talk a lot about video games in education. Now most of them are young, well within John Beck’s break-off age of 34. But they are going deep, not just, “Let’s teach with video games.” They’re thinking and talking about what exactly it is about the video game that makes it such a potent learning engine. It all falls very nicely into what I’ve been thinking and writing about with flat classrooms. I was especially impressed with the thinking and conversation that I had with Jeff Giddens and Daniel Rivera, who work for one of the Georgia regional centers. I’ll definitely be rolling this into my ALA talk the end of the week.

Here’s a post from Jeff Gidden’s SEGA Tech blog. Please link to the original post. He’s done a wonderful job linking to the people hemet last night.

Daniel and I aresitting in the room at Georgia Public Broadcasting where we’ll beattending tomorrow’s Southeast Discovery Educator Network Institute.We’re here as part of a group testing the wireless and ethernetconnections. Earlier this evening we met with approximately 30 otherDENizens at our hotel. We met with old friends (like the evereffervescent LaQuita Hutchinson an instructional technology specialistfrom Chatham County in Savannah, the mighty Mike Horn of the Universityof West Georgia ETTC in Carrollton, and Joe Finkelstein) and newacquaintances (such as some fine folks from Florida–Kay Teehan, MarkHall, and Lee Kolbert to name a few–and a couple of entertaining ladiesfrom South Carolina by the names of Wendy Morris and MaryAnnSansonetti). You can read about everyone who’s attending over atKatherine Aiken’s DEN blog for Georgia. I was delighted to see andspeak with one of my favorite edubloggers, David Warlick of Landmarksfor Schools Project and 2 Cents Worth fame. I also got to chat withHall Davidson who did a masterful job presenting at last year’s NECC inPhiladelphia. Looks as if it’s going to be blast when things start upin the morining.

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