Instructional Design Links to Follow

I have chosen the following three links as potential links to follow going forward.

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/instructional-design/

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/

http://www.iddblog.org/

 

The first link has some ongoing blogs and posts relating to gaming and the learning process.  I particularly enjoyed the graphic of the brain broken into the different regions.  The regions were then color-coded to describe the characteristics of the learning process that takes place in that region of the brain.  As a parent of a ten-year old, I fought the battle of being a consumer of any of the electronic games.  I lost the battle but not the war.  I gave into purchasing the game but we do have a limit on how much time he is allowed to play.  I watch my son with these devices and see how totally consumed he gets and often wonder how this factor into his ability to learn.  My unscientific observation does show he has an amazing level of strategic thinking.  His analytical skills are pretty astute also.  He is a great math student and it is not because I am a math teacher.  His writing skills as a fifth grader is often more creative than those of my high school students. 

The second link not only blog on gaming but play and the learning process in general.  I find the gaming and play topic interesting because as much as I try to incorporate these things in my classroom,  I keep telling myself my college bound students will not find this at the higher learning institutions.  Whereas this may work wonderfully for the elementary level students, I find it necessary to start pulling away from play at the high school level.  I will be interested to see what types of blogs are posted about transition of the play factor from secondary education to post-secondary education.  But, I am well aware that the gaming industry is a billion dollar plus industry now. 

The third link is for the post-secondary instructional designer or teacher. I am very interested in seeing how our veteran professors are handling the onset of technology in the classroom.  I’m sure for some it is a transition.  I would like to see what type of collaboration is going on between the 20^th century professors and the professors we grew up with.  These are the types of things I hope to see in this blog site.