Tag: Games/Gaming
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More gaming resources – in moderation of course
I don’t know how long ago I found this link, but I found these links a while ago and together they suggest that gaming is something that even if it’s not done in the classroom, informs many real life skills for students. If this sounds familiar, it should, it’s by James Paul Gee. The second…
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Download RR Tycoon for free
Sid Meier has got to be one of the greatest game designers ever. His games are ones that could very easily be used as a resource in the classroom (a classic COTS type game). If you want to get the railroad game that started it all, click to download. Just a note, the site is…
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Wii Workout
If you are one of those few people with a Wii reading this, and feeling a bit stiff, you are not alone. WSJ (more on gaming from the WSJ, if that is not getting gaming out from the basement, I don’t know what is) has a story about how Nintendo is telling those who are…
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It’s not the technology!
This is something that I’ve noticed working in professional development, that technology doesn’t solve problems that it didn’t create and usually creates more problems when it’s put before user experience. I found an interesting site that talks about how Nintendo has thought about the user experience first on the Wii and how (at least in…
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Wii, the almost $100 console
Business Week has an interesting interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Ken’ichiro Ashida about the Wii and how they took inspiration from just about everywhere but CPU horsepower to create the system. They also wanted to make moms (and wives I would say) happy with the cost and the lack of wires. In the end they…