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Augmented Learning: Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games. Eric Klopfer (MIT Press).
Writing about education technology tends to dwell on long-term visions or tout the merits of expensive hardware investments (one laptop per child, anyone?). In this new book, MIT professor Eric Klopfer provides a welcome departure from that norm, explaining in scholarly but accessible prose how simulations designed for cheap, mobile technologies can enhance learning. One simulation, for instance, entails students being introduced to genetics through an exercise in which a classroom of students "breeds" via PalmPilot, with students milling about and touching their Palms to mate. ...