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Jewish Games For Learning: Renewing Heritage Traditions In The Digital Age, Owen Gottlieb Apr 2015

Jewish Games For Learning: Renewing Heritage Traditions In The Digital Age, Owen Gottlieb

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Rather than a discontinuity from traditional modes of learning, new explorations of digital and strategic games in Jewish learning are markedly continuous with ancient practices. An explication of the close connections between traditional modes of Jewish learning, interpretive practice, and gaming culture can help to explain how Jews of the Digital Age can adopt and are adapting modern Games for Learning practices for contemporary purposes. The chapter opens by contextualizing a notion of Jewish Games and the field of Games for Learning. Next, the chapter explains the connections between game systems and Jewish traditions. It closes with a case study …


Thinking Outside The Box: Promoting Learning Through Emotional And Social Skills Development, Aiden Carthy, Sinead Mcgilloway Jan 2015

Thinking Outside The Box: Promoting Learning Through Emotional And Social Skills Development, Aiden Carthy, Sinead Mcgilloway

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The European Qualifications Framework provides a useful insight into the kinds of outcomes and abiliti es that are promotedacross the EU. However, beyond arguably vague references to concepts such as ‘integrity’ and ‘autonomy’, this frameworkmakes no reference to the development of students’social and emotional competencies. Based on initial research findings inan Irish context, and when considered against the backdrop of a convincing literature on the importance of emotionalintelligence in academic attainment, there would appear to be considerable scope to modify this framework in order to accommodate more specific reference to the development of emotional and social skills. This paper addresses …


What Makes A Technology Appropriate?, Barrett Hazeltine Jan 2015

What Makes A Technology Appropriate?, Barrett Hazeltine

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A Company Town, Daniel Peltz, Sheridan Coleman Jan 2015

A Company Town, Daniel Peltz, Sheridan Coleman

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Matafunctional/Metafictional Objects, Paolo Cardini Jan 2015

Matafunctional/Metafictional Objects, Paolo Cardini

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Urban Eden, Anne Tate Jan 2015

Urban Eden, Anne Tate

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Design For Transitions - From And To What?, Cameron Tonkinwise Jan 2015

Design For Transitions - From And To What?, Cameron Tonkinwise

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The Challenges Of Beginning A Scholarly Debate In The 21st Century, Jo Guldi Jan 2015

The Challenges Of Beginning A Scholarly Debate In The 21st Century, Jo Guldi

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Critical Design And The Critical Social Sciences, Damian White Jan 2015

Critical Design And The Critical Social Sciences, Damian White

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On Creative Dialectics, Ian Gonsher Jan 2015

On Creative Dialectics, Ian Gonsher

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