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The WoW Factor -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Wanda Terral

77 Educational Games & Game Builders - 0 views

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shared by Wanda Terral on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Wanda Terral on 13 Dec 11
     
    A great list of links from "Free Technology for Teachers"
anonymous

ENGAGE: European Network for Growing Activity in Game-based learning in Education - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    ENGAGE is a European Network for Growing Activity in Game-based learning in Education
anonymous

WoWinSchool / Writing and Literacy Lessons - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    Design a quest chain, based on your experience with other quests in the game. The chain must involve at least two different areas in the zone and have at least five steps. Write all the dialogue that the NPCs involved in the quest would say. Make sure you indicate the quest requirements and the steps involved in the quest. You can research quest chains using one of the online quest helper databases like WoWWiki, Thotbott, etc.
anonymous

What can we learn from a video game based on Dante's Inferno? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "The Dante here is no poet but a crusader - and a bloodbath ensues"
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