• One Christmas when I was a little bonehead in 1st or 2nd grade, I got a chemistry set.  It came in a triptych-like case that unfolded with rows [...]

  Adding time travel to a teacher’s bag of tricks

  April 29, 2013
• Angry Birds.  Undoubtedly one of the most addictive time-sink video games ever produced.  If you haven’t played, you should.  Aside from [...]

  F = ma, Angry Physics

  April 15, 2013
• I would be remiss to not reference Lev Vygotsky, a long dead but genius dead Russian psychologist who has been one step and the better part of a [...]

  What would Vygotsky have thought of Play Station 4?

  April 11, 2013
• In the prior post, I talked about how actions can map onto cognitive learning.  In this post, I’ll extend this and look at tool use in [...]

  Tool use in video games: extending cognition

  April 5, 2013