What do you believe is the purpose of grades?
External sources (Grad Schools, Jobs, etc)
43%
Motivate students
14%
Evaluate students
43%
Total votes: 14
Phylomon Project and the Problem with Educators and Game Design
Sun, 01/24/2010 - 6:49pm — skdevitt
(This is a shortened version of an original blog post by skdevitt. For the original, please visit Feed: Philosophy of Memory)
Mock-up of what Phylomon might look like.
I'm intrigued by The Phylomon Project. In the year of biodiversity, the Science Creative Quarterly (SCQ) are compiling a bunch of cards with the key statistics of species on them, emulating Pokemon. Apparently primary school kids can remember 120+ types of Pokemon creatures, but know less than 50% of common wildlife species. My concern with the project is that they have missed out on the fun.