education
Gamification: education made fun
Submitted by benjamin on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 06:29. |
| Gamification: the application of game-design thinking to non-game activities to make them more fun, engaging and educational (image credit: www.alleywatch.com). |
One laptop per child, too ambitious for South Africa?
Submitted by christina on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 07:10.
Educational Technology - the screen is brighter on the other side
Submitted by christina on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 07:25.
Image credit: Brad Flickinger
Future journos blog on MyDigital Life
Submitted by jude on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 13:54.Fourth-year journalism students from Rhodes University's New Media Lab are drumming up experience in blog writing and managing social media, and earning some money while doing so.The New Media Lab has partnered with My Digital Life (www.mydl.co.za), an online social media and blogging hub owned by business technology media company ITWeb.
Tweeting in a time of radical change
Submitted by jude on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 21:00.Educators need to refresh Journalism, Media and Communication Studies curricula to help make sense of a radically changing mediascape. This was the message to delegates from UNESCO's Centres of Journalism Excellence and Reference who attended a programme titled Capacitating COE's for Real-Time Journalism and Media Studies just ahead of the second World Journalism Educators' Congress.
New Media Lab lecturer, Jude Mathurine shared lessons from Rhodes' School of Journalism and Media Studies' own change to a converged curriculum. He called on delegates to consider three key ideas:
