I found a picture: Mary Nowlin in Jackson Wyoming

I'm slowly going through my mother's scrapbooks. Every once in a while I run into a real gem. This is my grandmother, Mary (McKean) Nowlin circa late 30s to early 40s at the house next to the Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole Wyoming. I believe one of the children is my Mother and another my Uncle Dan Nowlin. You can see the fence for the Elk Refuge in the background. This is the site of the Nowlin Creek Inn that my cousin Mark and his wife built many years back. My understanding is that the house in the picture has been moved to the back of the lot. I very much miss this area of Wyoming as it was before becoming 'discovered'.

Prensky: Engage me or Enrage me

Marc Prensky of course. What if we took learning back to the students in a way that would allow them to work within a complex system that held their attention? Prensky has an excellent point that young people master complex systems that go far beyond what we expose them to in school. My son Shawn at 11 is working his way through the Dungeons and Dragons books. A great deal of math, planning, and comparison at high levels going on there. But he is below average in many subjects at school. Maybe it is not about what we choose to engage them with as much s how?

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0553.pdf

So how do we do this? Is this something that can be achieved via educational gaming? Somehow I don't think it will be that easy.