ULearn06: The breast, pussy and behind edu_game

Cj reminds us that when playing games in education – some games are more interesting than others.  I like games, and immediately want to ask cj- What games are available?  What do you reckon is the most interesting game to play?  What are your criteria for “interesting”?

But Cj’s not around so I’ve pondered this seriously by myself, for at least 30 seconds, and reckon the premier game in the landscapes of eduspeak is the “breast” “pussy” and “behind” edu_game.

“We must stay abreast with change – if we pussy foot we’ll all fall behind
I like the words “breast,” “pussy” and “behind”  Leunig

The "It’s a white out" Educational Gazette Volume 85 Number 7   8 May 2006 where the game play is described as “Interactive whiteboards have proved such a hit in Invercargill that every school in the city is getting one” qualifies as a "breast pussy behind" BPB game because despite the article’s outrageously anecdotal claims more serious researchers suggest

“There is insufficient evidence to identify the actual impact of such technologies (IWB) upon learning either in terms of classroom interaction or upon attainment and achievement.” Smith, Higgins, Wall and Miller (2005) Interactive whiteboards: boon or bandwagon? A Critical review of the literature.  Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21 pp91-101

cj’s encouragement to seek out more interesting games means I have decided to advertise a “Breast, pussy and behind” (BPB) edu_safari to ULearn06 in Christchurch this year –

Since attempting to stay abreast with change sets us adrift in the unsteady swash of hot and wet hormonal seas – I have carefully scaffolded the safari (e) tourists challenges when observing the ULearn06 “breast pussy and behind” (BPB) game.  And I must acknowledge help from the BBC Science of Love site in the BPB safari programme design.

The first challenge for BPB tourists will be to locate ULearn06 educators with early indicators of Stage 1 the "techno lust" phase - flushed cheeks, dilated pupils, racing heart beats, erect nipples and clammy hands.  Predict the trade displays will be fertile and fecund territory for this.  I have asked BPB tourists to bring 1Gb memory cards because I’m predicting the challenge will be in finding file storage space rather than in finding techno lust fuelled registrants.

After techno lust which sees yearning educators (some times noted as “early adopters”) “out looking for anything (e)”, there comes the truly love struck educator in the “techno attraction phase”. 

Educators in Stage 2 - the “techno attraction” phase can think of nothing else but technology.  They loose their appetite and need less sleep, preferring to spend hours at a time daydreaming about their new lover.  They can achieve states of temporary insanity when pondering (e) learning. 

The ULearn06 tour party will be looking for educators in Goldhaber’s “intense attention as a species of enslavement” phase.  Educators enthralled/ enslaved  by technology -  educators where agency has dropped out and bewitchment taken over.  Reckon the ict_pd cluster and national facilitator presentations will be fertile and fecund territory for capturing gaunt and haunted looking educators showing this behaviour. (e) fellowship presentations may also prove profitable hunting grounds.

Stage 3 educators will be harder to locate.  The Stage 3 “techno attachment” phase takes over after the attraction stage.  Educators couldn't possibly stay in the attraction stage forever, otherwise they'd never get any work done and only be employable as (e) learning policy writers for the Ministry of Education.  Still I think some of the tour party will be up to the challenge in ferreting out examples of “techno attachment” educators.  Since vasopressin is an important chemical in this long term commitment phase it might be smart for the tour party to look for educators with a physical resemblance to the prairie vole.

Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for all the ULearn06 BPB safari tour party applications to flood in.

Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for all the ULearn06 BPB safari applications to arrive.

ow all I have to do is sit back and wait for all the ULearn06 BPB safari applications to arrive.

ow all I have to do is sit back and wait for all the ULearn06 BPB safari applications to arrive.

Comments

[Doug Noon]

Hmmm...still working on your cyberpunk edu-technoerotic novel, now coming in in game form. How do players score?

[Artichoke]

Aha Doug ....and i thought you'd want to know more about the interactive white board research

... am sorry but as you might expect in an edu_climate where cash is king - the detail you request is available only to fully signed up and paid up BPB ULearn06 tour party members

[Doug Noon]

Ok, so now I have to ask: Since your game seems to be for people who are infatuated with their own hardware, maybe it has some audioerotic features?

[cj]

And you seriously think I'm gonna make ANY comment? What a hoot. I could be all set with bucket and spade to join the safari but I'm not sure my superiors allow me to play R or X rated games on company time!

[Ali]

I can now see that I am going to spend the whole of ULearn putting delegates into these categories.Off to have a muse about the CORE staff and where they sit!

And as mentioned in the lounge of sunny(NOT) Wellington airport, check out my blog http://blog.core-ed.net/ali/
if you want to see my pussy.

See you in September in Chch.

[botts]

do you accept safari applications from the far west?
i personally am not interested in stages 1 through 3 but rather in a higher order beastie, the true geek. somewhere towards the back of the crowd, trying hard to blend in but not really succeeding. a youngish male with a shirt that's not quite today but not completely yesterday either, carrying a backpack that looks a little too heavy to be quite right. obligatory headphones, maybe big bad sehnheiser whoppers, but more likely very expensive earbuds, not white, not apple and definitely not microsoft - perhaps zen hacked with linux - playing very loud retro rock or ultra modern white noise experimental somethings. and yes there will be an odour, nothing like vasopressin but more like day old pizza with a hint of jolt (old skool red bull) and washed out with an overlarge dose of brut.
not a breast pussy or butt to be seen, but if we were able to see inside the mind of this true geek then not far from the techno jumble at the surface would be the rudest awakening from unspent and untried pleasures of the mind soul and body. a ripe fantasy world peopled with naked techno lusters being eaten for breakfast by dominant geeks who have finally reached the peak of their evolutionary journey.
seek i the geek.

[Leigh Blackall]

Will you safari on down to Dunedin a little earlier for the road show of behinds talking about the Future of Learning in a Networked World?

[Artichoke]

“The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of references that match those criteria.”

I have always felt a little ambivalent about disclosing the stats and referrers for Artichoke to the Magnet given that the vast majority are foodies looking for “carrot and artichoke soup” and “oyster artichoke bisque”. Cj’s school as a “dangerous ursine technology” saw a whole load of new punters googling for “hirsute women” but this last BPB game post trumps all my previous attempts to build a critical readership – the number of people searching for breast+pussy is beyond belief - and has sent my stats to a record high …seems such a shame to drop it back to the three edu_blog readers interested in the New Zealand Curriculum Draft but needs must

[Elaine Newton]

I have been so desperately practising my ulearn dance steps that it didn't occur to me that you might want more!! For a little variety I might introduce some rope tricks http://www.animatedknots.com/indexboating.php Methinks they could be as useful to education as the cargo-cl – oops, cult climate that we purport to be escaping from, and certainly show promise in terms of the BPB Edu_safari. Should there be a problem moving from attraction to attachment phases, perhaps aforementioned rope tricks could hasten the process and cement the relationships?

[Artichoke]

What a fabulous contribution Elaine http://www.animatedknots.com/indexboating.php>Grog's Boating Knots Index gets my vote for “most sensual link on Artichoke” – am certain it will provide useful empirical support for players in the BPB bon_d.ag(e)@Ulearn06 game – just watching those thick bits of rope slowly indulge in a self absorbed dance of stop motion Seussian knottage through technology - that “in, out, up, down, around and through” - is going to make me restless all afternoon.

[roseg]

Hello Arti dear. I've also popped in to ask whether you can be persuaded to run away with the circus Leigh refers to in his comment.

Please find us. (Or tell us how to find you).

r

PS are you related to that Slartibartfast fellow who designed Norway? I figured with all those glaciers and stuff in NZ....

[Artichoke]

Dear r,
How did you guess that I would not, could not ever turn down an invitation to run away with a circus –

I will contact Leigh and find out where/when I can join you, whilst you prepare for your “spreadeagled in the empty air of existence” performances across New Zealand.

Figure it will have to be at the beginning of your tour since I have promised myself to other Theatres of the Absurd in September

Your so easily compromised

Arti

PS I suspect my Norwegian links, and my facility for designing coastlines will match yours after a few drinks

[roseg]

WOW Arti - your PS is PERSACTLY the sort of reassuring comment I'd expect from a *genuine* Viking - something that sounds hearty and sincere enough in the hearing but later leaves the visitor with some ambiguity not only about what was said, but also *who* the host was insulting. Woo hoo! Can't wait to meet you :-)