Tag: Game Based Learning
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From no food, to too much
The UN Food Force game has been around for a while. It looks at the issues behind getting food to people who don’t have enough. Now there is a new game, Fatworld, that looks at the opposite – the politics behind having too much.
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A Couple of Open Courses
There are quite a few courses now that are open to the world. The first one that I spotted online was George Siemens” course that explored the idea of working/learning/creating beyond the classroom. Today, I spotted another, and this (story, course) one is a little more ambitious – using the RPG framework to create a…
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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…
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Gamers are readers
About a month ago, there was some interest in the activities of libraries in New York surrounding their hosting of gaming tournaments. So when I spotted this on Research Quest, I thought it would be a natural follow up. If you want to cut right to the chase – check out the wiki that has…
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Growing up Gaming
Let’s start with this: There is an interesting message here, there are likely many people out there who think like this – people for whom the ideas from the Matrix are not really that far fetched. But the take home message is that we have come to a point that games have matured to a…