I am the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. I am interested in open source platforms for learning and research, games and learning, and the history of science education. Before coming to the CHNM I worked for the Games, Learning, and Society Conference.
SEARCH
Bio
Photos
Status
- tjowens: @samplereality Apparently every address I have been associated with does not contain enough information. How should that make me feel?
- tjowens: I just can't understand how each Pokemon can talk to eachother only using the syllables of their own names @clioweb
- tjowens: 14 days left to submit proposals to the American Association for History and Computing's conference http://bit.ly/bE2zdv Tell everyone!
- tjowens: @retius @missmodular Indeed. As @jamespaulgee suggests most learning is more like games and less like classrooms http://bit.ly/9lzt1E
Tags
albert einstein
atomic
books
catalog
children's books
Children's Literature
chnm
Citizendium
Comics
copyleft
copyright
DC
design
Digital History
digital literacy
Education
educational games
Firstpast
game design
Games
Gender
History
History of Science
howto
lameness
learning
library
marie curie
omeka
organize
Playing History
playinghistory
programing
public history
RPG Maker
Science
serious games
Site Review
swivel
tech tree
Video Games
visualization
Wikipedia
worldcat
zotero
Suprises in Early Children’s Books About Evolution
Thursday, April 17th, 2008From the Scopes to Dover Area School District teaching evolution continues to be a perennial sore spot in American education. More often than not textbooks are at the center of these controversies. There are several excellent studies of the history of Evolution in text books. In Trial and Error Edward Larson argued that the scopes [...]
Keep Reading » 2