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Tag: Game Based Learning

  • MS + NYU = G4LI

    MS and NYU have teamed up to create the Games for Learning Institute. It looks like quite the collaboration to bring a scientific lens to the game learning debate. It will be lead by Ken Perlin and Jan Plass.

  • NYT – Libraries, Games and Reading

    The NYT has an interesting article that brushes the two sides of the “games can increase reading/literacy” idea that many authors like James Paul Gee advocate. The article looks at examples such as Haarsma’s Rings of Orbis that requires players to use knowledge gleaned from the books to be able to advance in the game…

  • WOW – “Kids” are using Science

    Clearing out my stared items, I caught this story from Wired – How Video Games Blinded Us With Science – that talks about Constance Steinkuehler and Sean Duncan’s work (Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds) that examined the discussions of WOW players and found that 86% of the conversation was targeted at at figuring…

  • Gamers can be better laproscopic surgeons

    This has been bouncing around the gaming sphere for a while, but here is another study: The Impact of Video Games on Training Surgeons in the 21st Century James C. Rosser, Jr, MD; Paul J. Lynch, MD; Laurie Cuddihy, MD; Douglas A. Gentile, PhD; Jonathan Klonsky, MD; Ronald Merrell, MD Arch Surg. 2007;142:181-186. If you…