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Breakaway Game-free online football/soccer game - 1 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 25 May 12
     
    A free internet game about football/soccer designed by Champlain College students at the Emergent Media Center with the UNFPA and Population Media Center
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Parents Find Children With Autism Benefit From Video Games | TheLedger.com - 0 views

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  • Children (on the Autism spectrum) take games that call you a loser or say other things like that very personally
  • Garth Chouteau, spokesman for PopCap Games, says the company has received an immense amount of calls and letters from parents of children with an ASD diagnosis, such as Schramek, stating the positive effects their games have had on children. "These games are created with no purpose in mind other than fun, but people say these games help them relax and provide cognitive activity for their children. These are side effects of a really good game," says Chouteau.
  • "Kids on the autism spectrum have a hard time with emotional control. From a social standpoint, one of the things the games are helpful with is teaching the children to take turns."
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  • Chase Lebron, who was diagnosed with autism in 2004 at the age of 2, loves to play MarioKart and Pokemon. She found that allowing him to play these games teaches Chase how to cope with the difficult concept of winning and losing. "Their ability to cope with not always winning is not the same as with other children. Their expectations when playing these games can be a bit unrealistic so in playing them it helps teach how to deal with the concept of losing. I've also noticed that playing these games helps with hand-eye coordination," says Torres.
  • "The games on an iPhone, such as ‘Angry Birds" and ‘Jetpack Joyride,' are really great, simple games that you can use to work on goal setting. Every game has a goal that you are supposed to accomplish," says Hull. "Kids lose focus when there is too much going on around them, so having goals in a game teaches them to focus beyond the distractions to complete the mission."
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US Navy energy policy game - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 19 May 12
     
    Sequel/built on their pirates games.
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Greek financial policy choose-your-own-adventure - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 18 May 12
     
    So, what would your plan for Greece be? - Crooked Timber
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The evolution of the analyst: turning tactical analysts into strategic thinkers - 4 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 18 May 12
     
    The post below is courtesy of Tom Fisher of Imagenetic simulations, who writes about his recent work developing a simulation for use in training financial intelligence units in strategic analysis.-RB I knew we were on to someone when, mid-course, a student approached me with a problem. Tom, we've got a problem.
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Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 3 views

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  • I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
  • if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
  • the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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  • Education’s job should be, says Kay, to bridge this gap. To help, that is, people form these necessary new idea-receiving categories–teaching them the capacity for ideas–early on in their lives, so that as they grow they are ready to embrace the things we need them to know. Let me say that in a better way: so that as they grow they are ready to know in the ways we need them to know.
  • cultivate the ability to conceive of, work with, create, understand, manipulate, tinker with, disrupt, and, generally, appreciate the beauty of systems
  • The point is to be able to see connections between the silos. Says Kay, the liberal arts have done a bad job at “adding in epistemology” among the “smokestacks” (i.e. disciplines)
  • a game, or a simulation, thought of as a thing we might create (rather than a thing we only act within), is a visceral example of systems thinking
  • It’s the Flatland story–that we need to train our 2D minds to see in a kind of 3D–and Kay’s genius is that he recognizes we have to bake this ability into the species, through education, as close to birth as possible.
  • Systems thinking is to be conceived of as a platform skill or an increased capacity on top of which we will be able to construct new sorts of ideas and ways of knowing, of more complex natures still. The step beyond seeing a single system is of course the ability to see interacting systems – a kind of meta-systemic thinking – and this is what I think Kay is really interested in, because it’s what he does. At one point he showed a slide of multiple systems–the human body, the environment, the internet, and he said in a kind of aside, “they’re all one system . . .”
  • Seeing systems is an epistemology, a way of knowing, a mindset
  • What happens when you’re stuck in a system? You don’t understand the world and yourself and others as existing in constant development, as being in process; you think you are a fixed essence or part within a system (instead of a system influencing systems) and you inadvertently trap yourself in a kind of tautological loop where you can only think about things you’re thinking about and do the things you do and you thus limit yourself to a kind of non-nutritive regurgitation of factoids, or the robotic meaningless actions of an automaton, or what Kay calls living in a pop culture
  • A downside of being epistemologically limited to thinking within a system is that you overemphasize the importance of the content and facts as that system orders them
  • Bryan Alexander on 30 Apr 12
     
    Seems like, among other things, a call for learning with games.
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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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Games in Education - home - 3 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 21 Apr 12
     
    "Using gaming as a vehicle for learning is a very powerful idea and one that is under-utilized. This wiki is an attempt to create a comprehensive resource about gaming that we can all learn from - all contributions welcome!"
  • Brett Boessen on 23 Apr 12
     
    This is great -- lots of info here. Who's running it / who are the admins? Or is it just kindof crowdsourced?
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Xenos | Learning Games Network - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 12 Apr 12
     
    Xenos-ISLE is an open-source language learning portal - an online universe where people can gather and practice using a second language in natural and authentic ways through game play. Students are free to roam the world, chat and communicate with those they meet along the way.
  • Rebecca Davis on 13 Apr 12
     
    names mean stranger in Greek
  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Apr 12
     
    Which is nice - it's neither the target language (English) nor the students' original tongue (Spanish). So it emphasizes strangeness equally.
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BBC News - Minecraft maker reveals new 'hard science-fiction' game - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 12 Apr 12
     
    Want.
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What Can a Videogame Tell Us About How Economies Work? - 3 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 01 Apr 12
     
    By Jamin Warren Posted 03.29.2012 at 10:13 am On October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Troubled Asset Relief Program bill into law, delivering $450 billion to failing banks on the premise that it would prevent their collapse and stimulate a faltering economy.
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New game "Honor Bound" sweeps Trinity's campus : Trinitonian - 1 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 26 Mar 12
     
    Trinitonian | March 23rd, 2012 - 8:44 am Senior's communications honors thesis pits students against each other with a $500 prize on the line by Maddie Rau Today marks the launch date of "Honor Bound," a Trinity campus game theory project created by senior Laura Schluckebier.
  • Brett Boessen on 27 Mar 12
     
    Love it! Glad to hear a student group could put together a project like this. Does anyone know someone at Trinity who was involved? I'd love to be introduced and talk to them a bit about pedagogical aspects.
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Raph's Website » The best game design articles on the site - 1 views

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  • Brett Boessen on 19 Mar 12
     
    A thorough compendium of Koster's blogging over the past several years.
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The Afghan Provincial Reconstruction game - 1 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 04 Mar 12
     
    Another current events/conflict game. How much of this stuff is going on in Canada?
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Media - Social Studies - Play | Wolfsonian-FIU Freedom - 0 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 01 Mar 12
     
    Spin is designed to promote student reflection on the power of words and images by creating and altering meaning in a fictional narrative. This fast-paced, small group storytelling game provides students the experience of "spinning" a story in different directions to convey diverse storylines or viewpoints-much like it occurs in print, broadcast, and digital media today.
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Unmanned: a Game by Molleindustria and Jim Munroe - 5 views

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  • Brett Boessen on 25 Feb 12
     
    Short little interactive fiction and/or game thing imagining one possible scenario for a military drone pilot.
  • Bryan Alexander on 29 Feb 12
     
    Fascinating. Found myself playing it through several times. Has Bioware-style dialog gone casual?
  • Brett Boessen on 29 Feb 12
     
    ...and "serious"? ...and "persuasive"? Lots to like with this. I'll definitely be using it as a complex example in a games course in the Fall.
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Peacekeeping the Game - 6 views

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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. ;)
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12
     
    Read the site materials. :) Seriously, the rules, counters, and board are all printable there. Not an ambitious game.
  • 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.
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Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation - 4 views

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  • The value of Mass Effect as a science fiction universe is that it is a critical starting point for discussion about the purpose of humanity in a materialistic universe. Without an answer to that question, there is no real reason for Ender to defeat the Buggers, or for humanity to seek out new life and new civilizations, or for us to not let non-organic life be the torch bearer for intelligence in the universe. Mass Effect confronts us with a female hero of our own creating, with the deepest implications of diversity, with the most dramatic questioning of the value of what it means to be human. Whether you are a feminist, a transhumanist, a theologist, a proponent of space exploration, a pacifist, a human exceptionalist, a bioethicist, a scientist, or a philosopher, Mass Effect demands you rethink your world.
  • Bryan Alexander on 23 Feb 12
     
    Bold claims, but 1+2 are really good.
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