Tag: Games/Gaming
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It’s Here!
Engadget has got what to me are the first pics of the XBox 360 being unpacked. Early reviews seem positive, but it’s going to be a long while before this machine is common enough that we’ll see any COTS type educational value from it.
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Violence in Video Games
… gets out the soapbox… I’ve been chatting with a colleague here in the faculty about video game violence, and he asked me for my two cents on the topic and (with some revision to cut out identifiers and stuff that is already posted frequently here) I’ll post them here. My take on the issue…
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Brain Dump – Ideas from everywhere
Ok, just a bunch of ideas here after starting to read James Paul Gee’s book. Gee talks about internal and external grammars and how children start to interact with them in games. While reading this, I got to thinking – this is a means or process for getting kids to focus on, and ultimately enjoy…
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ADD & NASA
I saw this on C|Net today and besides using two of my favourite games (Ratchet and Clank, Burnout) and being very similar to the Alert program aka “How does your engine run” (based on How Does Your Engine Run? A Leader’s Guide to the Alert Program for Self-Regulation (Williams & Shellenberger, 1996) I have noticed…
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Carnegie Mellon Peacemaker
If we are to believe what the media tells us, all games are violent and promote only the most simplistic solutions to problems. But if you are reading this, you likely have heard of games like The Sims, Civ (2,3), Black or White and a host of others that do not rely on violence to…