Presented by Dr. Henry Mack, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at St. Thomas University, and Former State Higher Education and Workforce Chancellor for Florida; and Deborah Trask, Regional Sales Manager for Tosa, Isograd
This edLeader Panel will provide school leaders with an overview of executive functioning, an umbrella term that refers to one’s ability to initiate, break down, and follow through on multi-step tasks.
Educators today are rethinking and reshaping their practice to align with the demands of a rapidly changing wired world. Consequently, a greater emphasis has been placed on skills such as creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, design, play, story, and student agency, all of which can be leveraged by video games. In this edWeb.net webinar presented by the Gaming-Based Learning community, Canadian educator Paul Darvasi shared many practical classroom examples to discuss how video games, as an essential manifestation of contemporary culture, are naturally conducive to learning in the 21st century.