Posted by StevieS on Mar 21, 2011 in
In The News,
Kid Voices
One of our main goals with Quest Atlantis is to position students to be actively engaged in the learning process and not just passive recipients. This still requires quite a bit of intervention and scaffolding from our part and the teachers’; but students still have one place where they have free reign – QVille. And the [...]
Tags: qville, student building, student design, Student Leaders
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
Posted by hees15karthik on May 11, 2010 in
Design,
Kid Voices
Hello, fellow readers. I’m Karthik, and I would like to share how it feels like to be Student Congress leader. I am very happy to represent my fellow Questers in the Student Congress. I get to talk about our experiences and suggest new ideas. Being a leader is a very responsible job. I try not [...]
Tags: Kids, participatory design, student design, Student Leaders
Come share your ideas on a Student Congress. An idea had been mulling for some months now about creating a world in Quest Atlantis where students can take up ownership, leadership and have opportunities to share their lifeworld experiences in the QA social commitments. The first formal meeting of our steering group happened this week [...]
Tags: leadership, participatory design, student design, teacher contribution, teacher design