Tag: Games/Gaming
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Not more efficient, just faster – Games on the brain
Cog Daily just posted something interesting on the effects of gaming and relative to what I may want to do a PhD on – gamers don’t process more efficiently, they process serially just like others do, but faster (not to say that serial isn’t efficient). This would be something that Das may have something to…
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Kong, Tablets and the DI Accent
This is going to be a bit of a double post, but it’s inspired by the same book – Prensky’s Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning. The first part is on games and how they can be used to explain story in ELA classes – I picked up King Kong for PS2 this week in…
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The Gamer Parent
With E3 in full flight, I dropped into the ESA website just to see what there was and found this interesting story. According to the finding of a study done by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, 35% of parents play games. it also found Parent gamers most often play card games (34%), followed by puzzle,…
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4 in 10 love Bosses
Well, this is a mix of two stories – the first suggests that 40% of Americans (I would assume that number is about equal in most North Atlantic countries and higher on the Pacific Rim) play video games and the second is from Wired that talks about what makes a good boss and why they…
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From GTA to Bully
I don’t know if RockStar has a deathwish or if they feed off of negative press, but with their new game Bully (Google there isn’t much news yet) they bring the grit of GTA to the schoolyard – at least that is the impression that I get from the first screenshots that they have on…