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The Alternate-Reality Games That Teach Kids The Cause And Effect Of Their Circumstances - 2 views

www.fastcompany.com/...se-and-effect-of-their-circums

games gaming simulation

shared by Bryan Alexander on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 09 Oct 14

These sound more like simulations. Good stuff.

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Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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game design education gamification

shared by Ed Webb on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached

The site reflected my commitment to designing the class assignments around collaborative mission-based tasks that would increase in difficulty level each week and reward multiple paths of completion. Each week I tried to think beyond discussion topics and create playful mechanics–the real challenge of harnessing gameplay, which no site can provide on its own–and some weeks it was hard to escape giving assignments that would never feel playful.
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many of the students appreciated the greater sense of collaboration
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Ian Bogost escalated his anti-gamification campaign with a Gamasutra article that explicitly mentioned how the rhetoric of gamification is drawing attention from educators to a trend that threatens “to replace real incentives with fictional ones,” among many other sins. The piece even inspired Darius Kazemi to build a Chrome extension that replaces “gamification” with “exploitationware.”
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From edutainment titles that amounted to repackaging of classroom drills to simulations that favor particular structures of reality, games as they stand are learning experiences we’ve started to understand but are still trying to harness in the classroom.
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a class-based Alternate Reality Game
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Bryan Alexander on 08 Jun 11

Neat! I like the way she worked in anti-gamification.

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ARG for espionage / human behavior research - 2 views

www.wired.com/...iarpa-alternate-reality-games

ARG

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The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry - 1 views

www.arcanegalleryofgadgetry.org

games education ARG

shared by Bryan Alexander on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 22 Jan 12

"The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry is a sort of narrative wunderkammer of an alternate reality game, a "cabinet of curiosities" combining a rich and oftentimes mysteriously fragmented historical tapestry with what Rob MacDougall has called "playful historical thinking.""

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Putting a human face on science storytelling - 1 views

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education games pedagogy storytelling augmented reality

shared by Bryan Alexander on 17 Sep 15 - No Cached

Bryan Alexander on 17 Sep 15

"These are middle schoolers building mobile, place-based games with ARIS, taking advantage of the game editor's powerful new re-design and one science educator's trust in letting his students demonstrate what and how they learn."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"These are middle schoolers building mobile, place-based games with ARIS, taking advantage of the game editor's powerful new re-design and one science educator's trust in letting his students demonstrate what and how they learn."</div>

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Brett Boessen on 18 Sep 15

Very cool. I appreciate that he takes the time in the video interview to lay out how one could take a more standard pedagogical model - his "5E" model (which I had not heard of before) - and augment/alter parts of it to incorporate the new technological elements he's interested in having his students explore.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Very cool. I appreciate that he takes the time in the video interview to lay out how one could take a more standard pedagogical model - his "5E" model (which I had not heard of before) - and augment/alter parts of it to incorporate the new technological elements he's interested in having his students explore.</div>

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Global Guerrillas: ONLINE GAMES, SUPEREMPOWERMENT, AND A BETTER WORLD - 0 views

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games gaming online economic sustainability endtimes robb

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Alternate Reality Facebook Game - 1 views

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History AlternateReality

shared by Todd Bryant on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached

Todd Bryant on 26 Apr 11

Uses real historic artifacts but creates fictional dystopian future.

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Special Issue of Syllabus: Teaching with and about Games - 1 views

www.syllabusjournal.org/...1168

gaming games pedagogy

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Bryan Alexander on 22 Feb 15

TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL Special Issue: Teaching with and about Games Video Game Studies How to Play Games of Truth: An Introduction to Video Game Studies Novel Interfaces for Interactive Environments Educational and Serious Game Design: Case Study In Collaboration Introduction to Games Design Representing the Past: Video Games Challenge to the Historical Narrative Learning Through Making: Notes on Teaching Interactive Narrative Video Games as a New Form of Interactive Literature Writing In and Around Games Hints, Advice, and Maybe Cheat Codes: An English Topics Course About Computer Games Teaching Network Game Programming with the Dragonfly Game Engine Root of Play - Game Design for Digital Humanists Alternative Reality Games to Teach Game-Based Storytelling "Continue West and Ascend the Stairs": Game Walkthroughs in Professional and Technical Communication Annotated Bibliography for Game Studies: Modeling Scholarly Research in a Popular Culture Field

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL Special Issue: Teaching with and about Games Video Game Studies How to Play Games of Truth: An Introduction to Video Game Studies Novel Interfaces for Interactive Environments Educational and Serious Game Design: Case Study In Collaboration Introduction to Games Design Representing the Past: Video Games Challenge to the Historical Narrative Learning Through Making: Notes on Teaching Interactive Narrative Video Games as a New Form of Interactive Literature Writing In and Around Games Hints, Advice, and Maybe Cheat Codes: An English Topics Course About Computer Games Teaching Network Game Programming with the Dragonfly Game Engine Root of Play - Game Design for Digital Humanists Alternative Reality Games to Teach Game-Based Storytelling "Continue West and Ascend the Stairs": Game Walkthroughs in Professional and Technical Communication Annotated Bibliography for Game Studies: Modeling Scholarly Research in a Popular Culture Field</div>

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