welcome to the home page of Katrin Becker, Ph.D.
consultant, author, speaker, instructional and user experience designer, developer, educator, agronomist
Specialty: Serious Games and Knowledge Translation (primarily in the STEM fields)
 Photo: Ken Bendiktsen |
Email: becker [at] minkhollow [dot] ca |
 President and Educational Officer at Mink Hollow Media Ltd. |
| Blog: The Becker Blog |
Adjunct Professor
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University (BC, Canada) |
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 Founder and Director Mink Hollow Farm School Hatching Program |
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Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2011 On-Line Book Resources Site
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Associate Editor: International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations International Journal of Game-Based Learning |
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latest BeckerBlog headlines
- Choose: Education OR Fun. Apparently, you can’t have both. (2012/01/25 08:44)I’ve talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at … Continue reading →
- » Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com (2012/01/25 07:50)» Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com. I shared this on FB the other day and got some responses I had to think about for a while. First, here’s the summary of the list: Force them … Continue reading →
- Interesting Take on Gender Stereotyping in Comic Characters (2012/01/21 12:08)The Avengers: Strike a Pose! Here we have the original ad pic for the new Captain America film (note the position of the Black Widow) followed by how it might look if all the superheros were made to pose like us … Continue reading →
- Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com (2012/01/20 15:54)Interesting…. Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com.
- The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat (2012/01/20 09:39)The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat. http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/apple-textbook-dark-side One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even though the love for Apple is strong … Continue reading →
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