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[new post] Noobing it up in minecraft: survival, making, sharing - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 23 Mar 11
     
    "I'd like to talk a bit about why I like the game and offer a few suggestions for educators looking for a meaningful way into your own learning. I'm going to call this: forget about the teaching part and just play = say goodbye to an evening or more, get lost a lot, die, make stuff, break stuff, repeat. I'm going to call my gaming pedagogy: noobing it up! "
anonymous

WoW Learning » networking - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "Fellow Canadian and WoW player Melanie McBride (@melaniemcbride) is composing a Twitter list of educators interested in using World of Warcraft & massively multiple online games for teaching and learning. Get in touch with her on Twitter or check out her list if that's you."
anonymous

Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children | Technology | The ... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "A YouGov poll has suggested that computer games can damage children's ability to communicate, but Tom Chatfield argues that gaming imparts a range of new, vitally important skills"
anonymous

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

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

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.
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  • 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.
anonymous

Public Google Doc: WOW_Learning_Value: Repurposing game structures for the classroom - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    I created this spreadsheet in order to track insights about aspects of MMO game play (example is WoW) that might be reconfigured or repurposed as classroom/school learning structures. The object here is not to necessarily use WoW in school but examine which elements of gameplay translate into new and unique learning experiences online or off. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS TO THE DOCUMENT. Short URL for sharing here: http://tinyurl.com/27sxnxa
anonymous

15 Minutes of Fame: Learn to game, to game to learn | Educators in WOW - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "We've spoken with other groups of academics who band together in guilds, and they don't always progress very far or become truly embedded into WoW's player culture. Is Cog Diss actively raiding? "
anonymous

WoWinSchool Wiki | Collaborative Workspace for Educators - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, in a school setting. Please take a moment to explore the various sections of the site and if you would like to contribute, please email Lucas Gillispie at lucas AT edurealms.com."
anonymous

[toolkit] Games for Change (G4C) -- Resources - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "So you want to make a game for change? Congratulations and welcome!"
anonymous

Games for Learning: Contact List of Gaming Educators [Google Doc] - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    A list to identify and connect educators (k-12 and up) who are researching and/or using games for learning - in school, out of school and otherwise. Please add your name, contact info and project to this list!
anonymous

Gamification, gaming, edugames: Keeping it real - 3 views

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shared by anonymous on 05 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • With educators finally embracing electronic games as a legitimate context for learning, there are a lot of questions and some debate about how to situate games in school. In addition to figuring out the place of gaming in school, I’m interested in exploring the ways gaming and gamers transgress the limitations of institutional/formal learning and what we can learn from authentic gaming cultures and contexts outside of school – as a key to learning with games but also the very future of education.
  • anonymous on 05 Dec 10
     
    With educators finally embracing electronic games as a legitimate context for learning, there are a lot of questions and some debate about how to situate games in school. In addition to figuring out the place of gaming in school, I'm interested in exploring the ways gaming and gamers transgress the limitations of institutional/formal learning and what we can learn from authentic gaming cultures and contexts outside of school - as a key to learning with games but also the very future of education.
  • Wendy Cotta on 27 Feb 11
     
    As an educator, I am more interested in gaming as assessment. I would love to see students perform at their best within the competitive gaming environment and at the same time, have some clever software to tag and classify their abilities. If the software can be written to assess that experience, I would be a happy teacher.
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