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The WoW Factor -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.
  • "Does anyone know where to find best practices for a unit on reptiles?"
  • Vyktorea herself belongs to Catherine Parsons, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction, and pupil personnel services for Pine Plains Central School District in New York state. Parsons is the founder of this "guild"-- a community of game players with a shared interest. Called Cognitive Dissonance and populated entirely by educators from both K-12 and higher education, it meets regularly in WoW's elaborate, monster-laden fantasy adventure world, where members play, share ideas, and explore possible instructional crossover. Parsons created the guild two years ago and now runs it with help from Sandy Wagner, director of technology for New York's Auburn Enlarged City School District.
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  • "Cognitive Dissonance represents for me the moment when you realize your perspective may not be the only one, or what you knew before might not be true or may need to evolve or change based on the new information you have gathered," Parsons says. "For many, the idea that video games might represent some analogy to an effective learning structure, or that there might just be something to using video games in the classroom, is one some educators might consider 'nontraditional.' So what better name than Cognitive Dissonance-- the uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously."
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.
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Why exploring Virtual Worlds is a goal, not information driven « - 0 views

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    First things first. Get into a World that has epic goals with massive emotional, social and cognitive domains. Following that experience, Second Life might actually mean something. Secondly - more information wrong, have more goals that are relevant to what you're looking into.
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Kids, Video Games, Posture & the Nervous System « Linda Stone - 0 views

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    "The way we breathe is central in regulation of attention and emotion, cognition and memory, and social and emotional intelligence."
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In praise of video games: Why World of Warcraft is good for you | The Economist - 0 views

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    "The scientists conclude that video-game players develop an enhanced sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this may help with activities such as multitasking, driving, reading small print, navigation and keeping track of friends or children in a crowd."
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Gamasutra - Features - Psychology is Fun - 0 views

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  • oundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
  • Foundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
  • World of Warcraft, regardless of race or class selected. Learn to walk properly, kill efficiently, use skills, loot, sell, etc., and there's no dearth of praise, experience, and cash value. Yet, continuous reinforcement is the first to wear off, because players immediately notice once you've staunched the flow of reward.
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  • fixed ratios, or fixed intervals, rewarding only after a set number of correct responses, or rewarding after a set amount of time, respectively.
  • compound reward schedules
  • until there's an extremity-themed reward at the tail end, behaviorism also calls this a chain
  • eeding concurrent reward schedules. They let our brain pick and choose the best way to reward itself. The key to generating fun in the brain of the player is to cater to them. They should always have options for how they want to stimulate themselves.
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      anonymous on 08 Nov 10
       
      the pleasure principle - the design and characteristics of the reward, the pleaure and/or function
  • dopamine, has been shown to have less to do with pleasure than with appetite, or "seeking."
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "Pleasure first, and then, excuse from pain, shape every move that we will ever make -- so say the behaviorists"
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Can't play, won't play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play - 0 views

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  • What we’re currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience.
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      anonymous on 08 Nov 10
       
      There's also the issue of play. Games offer play. Achievements and points are merely reward structures.
  • but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game
  • They are the least important bit of a game, the bit that has the least to do with all of the rich cognitive, emotional and social drivers which gamifiers are intending to connect with.
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  • Games give their players meaningful choices that meaningfully impact on the world of the game.
  • A world of badges and points only offers upwards escalation, and without the pain of loss and failure, these mean far less.
  • Gamification is an inadvertent con. It tricks people into believing that there’s a simple way to imbue their thing (bank, gym, job, government, genital health outreach program, etc) with the psychological, emotional and social power of a great game.
  • Gamification, as it stands, should actually be called poinstificatio
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    What we're currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience.
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    Another point here is the importance of "play" - games are designed to offer play in some form or another. Achievement structures are not play but an end object.
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