Posted by Bron Stuckey on Jan 12, 2011 in
QA Community of Practice,
Research,
Teacher Voices
In late December Quest Atlantis won the Edublog Award for Best Educational use of a Virtual World. This award was nominated for and voted by our teachers, so that now the world knows what we all know about Quest Atlantis: it really is the best! Of the 500 votes in this category Quest Atlantis received [...]
Tags: Classroom practice, student design, teacher contribution, transformation, transformational play
Each of the main Units currently have theme parks: Taiga, Virtual Mesa Verde, Plague and Statistics. In the coming months, additional theme parks for Spacenik and Drakos will also be found in Teacherville.
Tags: Ander City, Classroom practice, community of practice, Modern Prometheus, Taiga, teacher contribution, theme-based instruction
Posted by Melissa Gresalfi on Aug 7, 2009 in
Research
We have spent a lot of time this summer thinking about what goes on in classrooms when students log off of Quest Atlantis….how do the stories and experiences that kids have in the game come into the classroom? We’re especially interested in the whole-class conversations that take place around the content that kids are learning; how, [...]
Tags: Ander City, Classroom practice, Modern Prometheus, Taiga