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John Pearce

Filament Games - 5 views

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    Filament Games is a game production studio that exclusively creates learning games. Our core competency is producing games that combine best practices in commercial game development with key concepts from the learning sciences. Accordingly, our senior staff is comprised of individuals who are equal parts game and instructional designers; a "dual literacy" that allows us to engineer authentic gameplay mechanics (rules and interactions that directly correlate with specific learning objectives). Filament Games was founded in 2005 by education technology expert Dan White, game designer Dan Norton, and software engineer Alex Stone. In the time since, Filament has developed over 30 educational games for clients ranging from National Geographic's JASON Science to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's iCivics Inc.
John Pearce

Concepts in Game Development (GamesDev) | Open2Study - 3 views

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    "There are lots of different skills that go into game development. This course is about key technical concepts in game development, and has been developed for people of many different backgrounds and skills. Some programming experience would be nice but is not required. We start by looking at the central role of game design and common development processes used in the industry. You will see how game software can be broken into parts that work together, and in particular the idea of game engines. We'll explore the relationship between game design, balance and player experience. Lastly we'll look at enhancing player experience though the use of AI techniques."
Aaron Davis

IRIDESCENT: 5 Signals that an "Educational Game" Isn't Really a Game - 0 views

  • How can you spot the fake games masquerading as educational games?
  • 1. When walking through a demo of the game, the game designer stops to say "And this part is where the learning occurs."
  • 2. "And then to add the motivational element, we added a game component to the lesson."
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  • 3. Excessive use of the word "fun" in describing why the game works.
  • 4. Extensive in-game tutorials, as videos or text.
  • 5. Multiple choice items in the game that have clear right answers.
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    An interesting discussion of game-based learning and the false attempts to 'make games' for education.
John Pearce

Game2Game - Home - 2 views

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    "During this semester-long course, you will be spending a lot of time playing video games (woohoo!) but you'll also spend time getting critical about the games you play and the way in which video games reflect and shape your attitudes to other people, yourselves and the world! Of course, you will also get to be creative as well by creating your own online game reviews and designing your own video game. "
John Pearce

Preschool Games - Play, learn, smile. Together! - DuckieDeck.com - 2 views

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    Duckie Deck is a nice educational games site. Each of the games is ad-free and is designed to help children learn something new or practice a skill. You'll find games for learning about potty training, kitchen appliances, and brushing your teeth. You'll also find games for practicing counting and games for learning the alphabet. Duckie Deck offers 125 games in all.
Rhondda Powling

A Guide to Game-Based Learning | Edutopia - 3 views

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    From @coolcatteacher "Is Game-Based Learning the Same as Gamification? Not exactly. Gamification is "applying typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity." Great classrooms often use both. Every day in my classroom, I'm using the essentials: gamification elements, reward systems, and game-based learning. I've already covered 5 Ways to Design Effective Rewards for Game-Based Learning. Let's learn how to pick the games."
Rhondda Powling

Nobel Prize website-All Educational Productions - 4 views

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    The site has an educational games site designed to help students learn about subjects in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. In all there are twenty-nine interactive games for students to play. Each of the science-related games and the economics game is based upon the research of Nobel Prize winners. The literature and peace games are based upon concepts central to the work of Nobel Prize winners in those fields.
Rhondda Powling

5 Brilliant 'Design Your Own Game' Websites for Students - 16 views

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    5 websites that you could allow students to use and take control of designing games themselves.  
John Pearce

Augmented Reality: Coming Soon to a School Near You? | MindShift - 4 views

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    Thanks to technologies like GPS and QR codes, these games combine real-world experiences with virtual information. The games can capture geo-tagged audio recordings, for example, or photos and videos that student players can view when they reach a particular place or meet a particular character. Characters can talk with students, provide information, exchange items or respond to tasks. Authors can also create virtual items that players can retrieve and exchange. The key is the ARIS platform, which enables teachers, designers, artists, and students to create place-based narratives. Game designers say the open-source platform is easy to use; educators don't need a programming background to get started because the work is done with an online authoring tool.
John Pearce

Cargo-Bot, An Addictive iPad Game That Teaches Programming Concepts | Co.Design: busine... - 5 views

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    The key to learning to code is learning to think like a computer--which is a hard thing to do. "It requires structured thinking, ability to abstract details away, and there's little margin for error--one little typo and your program might do something entirely different from what you wanted," says game developer Rui Viana. "The real world just doesn't work like that, so it's hard to get your head around it." Which is precisely why Viana created Cargo-Bot, a simple iPad app that turns "thinking like a computer" into a genuinely addictive puzzle game. It's like Angry Birds crossed with Codecademy, and it's total genius.
Rhondda Powling

Using Games for Assessment | Edutopia - 3 views

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    "Game-based learning is more than just picking the right game for your classroom. It's about designing a meaningful learning experience for your students. "
John Pearce

Game Design 1 - 9 views

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    An interactive online course to teach students how to make their own games. This 12-Module course includes everything you need to make your own game, including the software, graphics, and sound effect libraries.
John Pearce

Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing's Legal Morass | Wired Design | Wired.com - 2 views

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    "Last winter, Thomas Valenty bought a MakerBot - an inexpensive 3-D printer that lets you quickly create plastic objects. His brother had some Imperial Guards from the tabletop game Warhammer, so Valenty decided to design a couple of his own Warhammer-style figurines: a two-legged war mecha and a tank. He tweaked the designs for a week until he was happy. "I put a lot of work into them," he says. Then he posted the files for free downloading on Thingiverse, a site that lets you share instructions for printing 3-D objects. Soon other fans were outputting their own copies. Until the lawyers showed up."
Clay Leben

Networked Learning Design - Occasional rants - 3 views

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    Presentation that contrasts linear design with "fresh" approach that involves rapid prototype and learner input with "experiences" that produce learning via activities or games. By Patrick Dunn.
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    Presentation that contrasts linear design with "fresh" approach that involves rapid prototype and learner input to "experiences" that produce learning via activities or games. By Patrick Dunn.
John Pearce

SpaceChem on Steam - 4 views

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    "Zachtronics Industries is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem."
Damien Murtagh

Create Games for iPhone, iPad, Android & HTML5 - GameSalad - 0 views

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    The World's Fastest Game Creation Engine. Design Games for Free - No Coding Required!
Clay Leben

The Case for Videogames as Powerful Tools for Learning | PBS - 12 views

  • 1. Just-in-time learning. Videogames give you just enough information that you can usefully apply. You are not given information you'll need for level 8 at level 1, which can often be the case with schools that download files of information that are never applied. Videogames provide doable challenges that are constantly pushing the edge of a player's competence. This is similar to Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. Lev Vygotsky 2. Critical thinking. When you play videogames you're entering a virtual world with only the vaguest idea of what you are supposed to do. As a result, you need to explore the physics of the game and generate a hypothesis of how to navigate it. And then test it. Because games are complex, you are continually reformulating and retesting your hypothesis -- the hallmark of critical thinking. 3. Increased memory retention. Cognitive science has recently discovered that memory is a residue of thought. So what you think about is what you remember. As videogames make you think, they also hold the potential to increase memory retention. 4. Emotional interest. Videogames are emotionally engaging. Brain research has revealed that emotional interest helps humans learn. Basically, we don't pay attention to boring things. The amygdala is the emotional center of the brain and also the gateway to learning. 5. We learn best through images. Vision is our most dominant sense, taking up half of our brain's resources. The more visual input, the more likely it is to be recognized and recalled. Videogames meet this learning principle in spades as interactive visual simulations.
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    Article offers several examples of games designed for learning and 5 game qualities.
Rhondda Powling

Portal 2 Puzzle Maker - Valve Developer Community - 1 views

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    "The Puzzle Maker (also known as Puzzle Creator or Editor) is an in-game puzzle editor that allows the creation, testing, and publishing (to Steam Workshop) of custom single-player and co-op test chambers. The Editor also adds new lines from Cave Johnson which, altogether, adds a story to downloaded test chambers. The DLC introduces the player to "The Multiverse" which contains an infinite number of Earths, an infinite number of Apertures, and therefore, an infinite number of test chambers. Puzzle Maker is not intended as a replacement of Hammer, which while more powerful and generalized in nature, is significantly more difficult and time consuming to use. It is possible to export a VMF from Puzzle Maker and open it in Hammer; many mappers do this to add polish or features that are not currently possible using the Puzzle Maker. Some mappers use the Puzzle Maker to quickly iterate through (and test) puzzle designs before building a chamber from scratch with Hammer. It is not possible to load a Hammer VMF file in Puzzle Maker."
Ashley Proud

Teachers | Quandary - 4 views

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    "Quandary is a free, online game that engages your students in ethical decision-making and develops skills that will help them recognize ethical issues and deal with challenging situations in their own lives. This page brings together all the information you need to successfully implement Quandary as part of your teaching, including a handy teacher guide, classroom implementation video, lesson plan and worksheet. We've also mapped the game to the Common Core standards. And don't forget to head over to the teachers' forum to share your own ideas and discuss tips and techniques from other educators."
Shane Roberts

google-blockly - A visual programming language - Google Project Hosting - 0 views

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    Will be the start of my game design unit, a lead in to Scratch
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