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Category: Gaming

  • The power of the token economy

    I’m sure you’ve seen one of those posters quoting ” – everything you need to know you likely learned in kindergarden – ” One of those things is that part of the world works because you have enough coins/stars/stickers. These are part of the token economy that is present in elementary school classrooms. Kids earn…

  • flOw

    Whoa… this was a medatative, zenlike game experience and if there is an embodiment of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory, this is it. My brain feels massaged after playing this. The dynamic difficulty and intrinsic reward structure of the game makes it very addictive. It would be amazing if we could structure classes like this –…

  • Crayon Physics

    One of the things that I enjoyed when taking physics courses was drawing the little diagrams to help explain the problem that I was trying to solve. This is a technique that is good for all manner of disciplines, but it seems to have been adopted best by Physics. So when I saw this game,…

  • 2009 Predictions

    Whoa… 2008 saw me put up almost a thousand posts, not to shabby. But I think that would have been higher if I wasn’t able to tweet at least a few of the things that would have otherwise been given a one liner post. And as I see the calendar is almost ready to show…

  • Hooked on games

    Instructors who look to games as models for designing their instruction look to the risk/reward ratio of games as something that they want to emulate. But the detractors will often say “but the easy games are too easy and the hard ones are too hard – what good is that for anyone?”. It might very…