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Lisa Durff

Can 'World of Warcraft' make you smarter? - Science- msnbc.com - 0 views

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  • Certain types of video games can have benefits beyond the virtual thrills of blowing up demons.
  • One study of 33 laparoscopic surgeons
    • Lisa Durff
      Lisa Durff on 25 Aug 08
       
      Who do you want operating on your brain?
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  • made 37 percent fewer errors than those who didn't.
  • "The single best predictor of their skills is how much they had played video games in the past and how much they played now. Those were better predictors of surgical skills than years of training and number of surgeries performed,"
  • gamers are "creating an environment in which informal scientific reasoning practices are being learned,"
  • Lisa Durff on 25 Aug 08
     
    Why video games are good for you.
Alice Mercer

Ms. Mercer's Classroom - 10/23/2006 - 0 views

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examples show_1 static_page webpage

shared by Alice Mercer on 21 Jun 07 - Cached
  • October 23, 2006 This week in our classroom:
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      Alice Mercer on 21 Jun 07
       
      This is a list of what we were learning about, and links to sites to learn more or do activities.
  • What is this a picture of? Click here to answer. To see what your classmates are saying, click here.
    • Alice Mercer
      Alice Mercer on 21 Jun 07
       
      This is the one place where students could interact. The responses, however, were on another page. Perhaps for that, and other reasons, the students did not respond much.
  • Alice Mercer on 21 Jun 07
     
    This is an example of a static web page. I provides a lot of information, and what we are studying, links to activities, but it lacks interactivity.  The conversation is largely one-way, to the students. The page can be updated, but not as quickly as adding posts on a blog.
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