Group items tagged how-to - Gaming and the liberal arts

Do Role-Playing Simulations Generate Measurable and Meaningful Outcomes? A Simulation's... - 2 views

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Role-playing simulations are frequently claimed to be effective pedagogical tools in the teaching of international relations (IR); however, there is a surprising lack of empirical evidence on their classroom utility. The assessment of simulations remains mostly anecdotal, and some recent research has found little to no statistically significant improvements in quantitative measures of academic performance among students who participated in them [for example, International Studies Perspectives (2006), vol. 7, pp. 395; International Studies Perspectives (2008), vol. 9, pp. 75–89]. Scant research has been conducted on how role-playing simulations might affect students' perceptions of the instructor's teaching. This paper investigates whether a simulation had statistically significant effect on students' exam scores in an IR course or on student teaching evaluation scores.
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"This Game Sucks": How to Improve the Gamification of Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU... - 6 views

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Bryan Alexander on 11 Feb 11

Very good to see. Are we at the early early early adopter phase of gamification in .edu?

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How Virtual Worlds are Reshaping India's Culture - Pixels and Policy - 1 views

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In other words, workers raised on the ethic of possibility inherent in virtual worlds won't sit around and listen to government excuses for why education is poor, infant mortality is high, and jobs are scarce. As companies like IBM begin to offer call center jobs in virtual worlds, many Indians are leaving the traditional office in favor of the comfort of their homes. The status quo simply won't suffice anymore.
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  Maybe so - but I'm not sold until someone can document real world effects of deprived Indians hanging out in Second Life.
  
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Bryan Alexander on 02 Nov 09

I wonder if "virtual worlds" means "gaming," here. No mention of mobile devices, which is odd.

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Codify - iPad - 6 views

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Erik Hanson on 31 Oct 11

How is it?

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Brett Boessen on 31 Oct 11

I wish I knew -- I don't have an iPad. Looks like there's a fair bit of text entry, though; in the demo clip there's definitely an external keyboard of some kind in use. I would think that would make it pretty hard to have much fine-grained control without such a device. Still, I'd like to try it. Maybe my institution will foot for an iPad...if they do, I'll let you know. :)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I wish I knew -- I don't have an iPad. Looks like there's a fair bit of text entry, though; in the demo clip there's definitely an external keyboard of some kind in use. I would think that would make it pretty hard to have much fine-grained control without such a device. Still, I'd like to try it. Maybe my institution will foot for an iPad...if they do, I'll let you know. :)</div>

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How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED - 0 views

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Bryan Alexander on 08 Nov 14

Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic-the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic-the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and...</div>

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The Neurology of Gaming - 3 views

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Bryan Alexander on 23 Apr 12

Video games can be used to educate through repetition and feedback, but they can also have some less-than-positive side effects. Learn about how video games can improve the educational experience as well as hinder it.

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Peacekeeping the Game - 6 views

www.peacekeepingthegame.com

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Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12

Open source board game on political conflict.

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Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12

How is it open-sourced? (If the answer is "read the site materials", I apologize in advance. ;)

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Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12

Read the site materials. :) Seriously, the rules, counters, and board are all printable there. Not an ambitious game.

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Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12

Oh I see it now. I especially like the supporting materials -- goals, background article. Those wouldn't have to be seen by the players, but could really help the facilitator/teacher.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Oh I see it now. I especially like the supporting materials -- goals, background article. Those wouldn't have to be seen by the players, but could really help the facilitator/teacher.</div>

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Smart Tools for Smart Power: Simulations and Serious Games for Peacebuilding | United S... - 1 views

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The event explored how the latest online and scenario-driven simulations and 3D virtual environments can be applied to sharpen decision-making skills and lay the foundation for more effective peace operations, negotiation, and cooperation.
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Shalom Staub on 21 Jul 09

report on the USIP peacemaking and gaming conference

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Bryan Alexander on 24 Jul 09

Shalom, which academic disciplines were most represented during the event? I would guess political science and history.

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YouTube - BBC Panorama: ADDICTED TO GAMES? - Part 1 of 2 - 2 views

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games gaming addiction

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Ed Webb on 07 Dec 10

See Part 2 also

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Brett Boessen on 08 Dec 10

Goodness. Love how they use WoW's own music against it...game addiction jujitsu!

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Bryan Alexander on 15 Dec 10

I gather that Panorama has gone downhill. And did have some fun poking at this on Infocult.

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Ian Bogost - How to Blurb Hegel - 1 views

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bogost gaming fun

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What happened to a Web search game - 0 views

www.raphkoster.com/...fate-of-a-social-games-company

browser search games

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Bryan Alexander on 12 Mar 10

Quite the saga of how PMOG appeared, developed, and ultimately flopped.

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The Imagination Age: GAMEFUL Challenge - 0 views

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ritajking DIP gaming education pedagogy science

shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jun 11 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 07 Jun 11

How very cool. I'll have to spend more time on 'ful.

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Terra Nova: Game Education: What Should You Study? - 7 views

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Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 11

Fascinating. On the one hand, a lot of talk around liberal education. On the other, that classic theory/practice debate.

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Brett Boessen on 19 Sep 11

They're certainly two perspectives on pedagogy I myself encounter regularly, though for me it's digital media production instead. Still, I wonder if games is entering the academy at an interesting time in terms of opening up conceptions of learning and pedagogy. A decade or two ago, and we might have seen less interdisciplinary language in the way these folks are talking about games as an object of study.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">They're certainly two perspectives on pedagogy I myself encounter regularly, though for me it's digital media production instead. Still, I wonder if games is entering the academy at an interesting time in terms of opening up conceptions of learning and pedagogy. A decade or two ago, and we might have seen less interdisciplinary language in the way these folks are talking about games as an object of study.</div>

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Bryan Alexander on 19 Sep 11

Interesting historical perspective, Brett. How is gaming's incorporation different from digital media's, a decade ago?

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Brett Boessen on 19 Sep 11

I was really thinking about TV -- guess it's more decades ago than I'd thought -- and the way TV became the younger sibling to film. Of course there are more formal similarities between them than between either and games in many ways, so maybe the comparison is not particularly apt.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I was really thinking about TV -- guess it's more decades ago than I'd thought -- and the way TV became the younger sibling to film. Of course there are more formal similarities between them than between either and games in many ways, so maybe the comparison is not particularly apt.</div>

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Bryan Alexander on 20 Sep 11

Will gaming become older media's younger sibling, then?

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Brett Boessen on 20 Sep 11

I don't really see that, myself, at least not from the production side, because computers and coding are such a prominent component. But it does seem like game studies is overlapping with existing media studies in many institutions. Perhaps we'll see a more demarcated split between studies and game design in a way we haven't seen with film and TV (not that film and TV aren't fairly demarcated at lots of schools; but they're still usually in the same department when they're both available).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I don't really see that, myself, at least not from the production side, because computers and coding are such a prominent component. But it does seem like game studies is overlapping with existing media studies in many institutions. Perhaps we'll see a more demarcated split between studies and game design in a way we haven't seen with film and TV (not that film and TV aren't fairly demarcated at lots of schools; but they're still usually in the same department when they're both available).</div>

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