Tag: Games/Gaming
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Funny Failure
Will Wright mentions funny failure in the last third of the PopSci Podcast. They built the creature lab knowing that there are certain constraints that are required to allow the creature to “live” and knowing how flexible the system is, they also have a system that is very flexible and that will be pushed to…
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Pop Sci interviews Will Wright
If you are interested in Spore, take a look at this interview. I’ve chopped out the part on education if you don’t want to read the whole thing: Do you see Spore, or the rest of your games for that matter, as being educational? I think in a deep way yeah – that’s kind of…
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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…
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Lessons from WOW in the classroom?
John August put up a post that’s getting dug pretty good that I thought might be applicable to the educational sphere as well, especially after talking to a colleague from Education about a week ago. WOW is an amazing experience for many people as they find that they are actually able to plan, manage and…
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Exams and Death
If you think about exams as the high stakes equivalent in a student’s career as being equivalent to death in games (as I have, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this right? – and looking back through my backlog of starred posts, I think Mark was thinking like this as well when he was thinking like…