Tag: Games/Gaming
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Game Learning Resource URLs
While looking up references I found Mark Prensky’s selected Game based training URLs and this new blog (Waran’s Blog) that quote Sarah Fister from Training Magazine (1999 I think?). How are the current generation of students different: They are far more experience at processing information quickly than its predecessors and is therefore better at it.…
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New Basics of IT
Stephen Downes posted quite an article on his blog and commented on at elearnspace and Seblogging. Most of it talks about a variety of theories that impact instructional design (including transactional distance – one of my areas of interest). But the last part of the article is a little more interesting for me (and seems…
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Kids… or maybe parents these days.
The Beeb put this article out this morning that points out what many people already know… The more restrictive the game rating, the better it sells, even to those it’s not supposed to sell to (I just checked Fark and noticed that ArsTechnica also has a writeup on this – but I like the Fark…
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Games are just another tool
elearnspace posted a link to an article by David Secko who reminds us that games are really just another tool for getting information across. Much of what people say about games it aimed at the commercial games that are played by the “youth” of today. I am not so naive to think that educational games…
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First crack in next gen consoles
… as an aside it’s taken me quite a while to put this post up, I’m currently bed ridden by what the doc calls one he ll of a viral infection … Wired posted an article today by Jim Martz who suggests that it would be a great thing for the next gen consoles to…