Minecraft Review
01.01.70
How would you reassessment Tetris, if you were reviewing it today? "The puzzling is very severe, and the soundtrack is catchy." That's the thing - Tetris is so much more than that by now, but it's almost unsuitable to disassociate it from its cultural resonance. Minecraft, the without cost or obligation-form building and survival game, hasn't yet seeped into the worldwide consciousness to the same degree, but it has become something far more than a mere game.
It is one that over four million people have already paid for and played. It is the brightest pattern of an indie success story you could name, having never been next-door a publisher or even an investor. Its lead developer, Markus 'Groove' Persson, is all but a celebrity - that one-word nickname guaranteeing crying press and gamer attention for any and all pronouncements it's seconded to. There are T-shirts, there are costumes, there are conspiracy theories about an in-dissimulate nemesis who doesn't exist, there are podcasts, there are more YouTube videos than one lenient being could watch in a lifetime, there is a dedicated video commentary position starring a girl with pink hair who has her own frighteningly dependable fanbase.
Source: Eurogamer.net
Is it time to redesign the report card?
01.01.70
This week, many parents and guardians of students across the native land will receive their first report cards of the 2011-2012 opinion year. For some, the occasion will provide welcome confirmation of a adolescent person’s superior effort. Others will open their post to find an uncomfortable wake up call. Yet for too many families, the report cards will come forward little more than confusion – about how their child is in fact behaving, what he or she has actually learned, and whether any meaningful make one's way has actually been made. “I have a master’s degree in learning,” said Devon Bartlett, a origin whose children are in first and fourth grade, “and even I can’t cook sense of what my child’s report card is tiresome to tell me. Clearly, we can do better.”
Given how nescient so many parents feel, and considering how differently the realm’s 100,000 plus schools choose to trail student growth, is it time to give the school communiqu card an extreme makeover, and dress it up for the 21st century?
Source: CNN (blog)