Solitaire proved particularly useful in teaching neophytes how to use the mouse. When Microsoft first preloaded solitaire as part of 1990's Windows 3.0, clicking and pointing weren't yet second nature. By dragging and dropping cards, newbies developed the mousing fluency required to use every other Windows program.
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GLS - Research - Youth Filmmaking as Digital Literacy - 0 views
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This is a cool website for we education/game people. This is just one area of interest for them. Youth filmmaking!
.:CivWorld:. - 0 views
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Application of popular game "Civilization" to educational context. A good mashup of motivation and education!
Why we can't stop playing computer solitaire. - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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In the pre-Internet era, much of solitaire's allure came because it was the only game in town. Moving a black two onto a red three may not have seemed particularly enticing on its own terms, but compared with the visual stimuli provided by an Excel spreadsheet, a post-victory card cascade was an unimaginably rousing spectacle.
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This article is really bad, but it makes a couple good points, which I highlighted for you. You're welcome!
SpringerLink - Book Chapter - 1 views
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The four general areas of concern that came out of this discussion were consistency with context, player expectations, social interactions and consistency with the environment
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Research paper exploring how to create an engaging game experience
Top-Sellers? Bah, Let's Look At The 10 Most "Engaging" Games - littlebigplanet - Kotaku - 1 views
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A look at the most 'talked about' games via social networking... Wii fit is right up there!
How Social Gaming is Improving Education - 3 views
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Federation of American Scientists has developed a first-person shooter-inspired cellular biology curriculum. Gamers explore the fully-interactive 3D world of an ill patient and assist the immune system in fighting back a bacterial infection.
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“The amount of detail about proteins, chemical signals and gene regulation that these 15-year-olds were devouring was amazing. Their questions were insightful. I felt like I was having a discussion with scientist colleagues,”
A Story About Motivation - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views
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Some participants received five dollars, some fifty cents, and some were asked to do it as a favor. How hard did each group work? The five dollar group dragged, on average, 159 circles. The fifty cents group dragged 101 circles. And the group that was paid nothing but asked to do it as a favor? They dragged 168 circles.
Runescape II Best Online Game for Kids 13 to 83 - 0 views
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Why I don't mind my grandson playing it!
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Runescape II Why I don't mind my grandson playing it!
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His typing skills now way surpass mine and I can type 40 words a minute., his reading has even improved.
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A grandmother's post about why she thinks Runescape is great for kids. A rare older person's perception.
ScienceDirect - Computers & Education : Computer support for learning mathematics: A le... - 0 views
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The IIRM are educational software components, specializing in mathematical concepts, presented through recreational mathematics, conceived as interactive, recreation-oriented learning objects, integrated within the environment.
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instant messaging, chat rooms, and multi-player math games
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Mexican high-school students
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Research paper on "recreational learning objects" in this case a math-based computer game, which was shown to increase motivation in Mexican high schoolers.
MICDL: Research - Show - 0 views
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computer games were significantly more effective in promoting learning motivation but not significantly different in facilitating cognitive math test performance and meta-cognitive awareness.
ScienceDirect - Computers & Education : Computer game development as a literacy activity - 1 views
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Both groups studied the same curriculum unit over a 10 week period, however, in addition the experimental group developed computer games related to the unit using a game development shell.
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game development helped improve student content retention, ability to compare and contrast information presented, utilize more and different kinds of research materials including digital resources, editing skills, and develop an insight into questioning skills
ResulTechSchModel_v3.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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A model for engagement in classrooms created by an initiative in Maine.
KarunaTree: Empowering Children to Educate Adults’ Environmental Decision-M... - 0 views
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Augmented reality, engaging kids to plant digital "seeds" for adults to find.
insight.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views
DML News & Info Search - MacArthur Foundation - 0 views
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Webcast about digital media created by urban students.
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