Tag: Games/Gaming
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Game for a younger brain?
The Globe and Mail as an article with an interesting look at bilingualism and gaming: A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at…
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New Innovate Online
There are three interesting articles this time around. The first one is from the U of A – Neverwinter Nights in Alberta: Conceptions of Narrativity through Fantasy Role-Playing Games in a Graduate Classroom – It’s nothing that hasn’t already been done with other groups using Scriptese or other scripting languages that can create modules for…
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More GTA:SA Fun
Well, it is getting even more weird for Rock Star and Take Two. The City of LA is going after them in court for illegally hiding porn. This certainly gives any attempts to help GBL out yet another monkey to bear on it’s back. People, it seems, think that when ED/IT people talk about game…
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Gaming and motivation
I found these two articles while working on a lecture for game learning. The first talks about how motivation is a key factor in how we learn. It’s an anecdotal account more than anything else, but it gives hope that there are schools who ‘get it’ and try to make child learning much more like…
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More Violence and Games…
Bruce Bartholow from the University of Missouri-Columbia has just released a study (PR) that shows what he calls a causal link (New Scientist) between playing violent games and the “dulling of the senses” if you will to real life depictions of violence and it’s enactment. Of course there are people on both sides of the…