Tag: Cognitive Stuff
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IM not bad 4 U
I saw this last night while reading the paper and a quick search this morning found quite a bit as well – it seems that SMS shorthand, like any that came before don’t impact grammar. I know that there are many people this applies to and there are exceptions as well that I’m sure we’ve…
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Puzzles and Brain Age
If there is no other argument as to why games should be used to help develop minds, all one has to do is look into the world of puzzles to see how cognitive gymnastics help keep the old grey matter from getting old. The BBC has a story on a game that is available for…
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Teaching Thinking about Technology
I had to pick up a book for my wife this morning, and thumbing through it, I found some interesting things. The book is Developing minds : a resource book for teaching thinking, 3rd Edition, edited by Arthur L. Costa. There is one section that deals with technology and I’ll try to summarize it here:…
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Game Studies Research Findings – GDC 2006
I was looking at stuff from GDC 2006 and found some interesting resources – Research Findings, Avant Game and Avant Game Blog. Take a look at some the resources. Some of them are applicable to education and transferring game, mainly when you are adding a feature, be it to a game or a lesson, be…
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Hard Fun
I’m getting ready for a lecture that I’m giving tomorrow and Thursday to a class that deals with the psychology of technology (in the Faculty of Education – so it’s Ed Psych) and one of the points that I had come up with to help legitimize game based learning is Papert’s “Hard Fun” (2002). There…