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Gamification, education and our children
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A study highlights how narcotics often give unlikely strength and health boosts to characters.
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Customers will now have to be told how likely they are to get certain in-game items, says Apple.
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We have the evidence and the design tools to demonstrate that digital games are powerful learning tools. Whether we choose to take advantage of the opportunity before us is a completely different question.
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Blowing away enemy soldiers and aliens may be good for the brain, as researchers have found that fast-paced video games improve a player's learning ability. - New Zealand Herald
I guess the old rule of moderation holds true - some video games can be positive, but too much can be harmful. -Lon
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The booming arena of online gaming may just be a bit of fun, but it can be fiendishly addictive.
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Educators have long understood that the interactive dynamic of games has the potential to benefit teaching and learning, and recent years have seen considerable activity surrounding the use of game mechanics in higher education. A diverse matrix of approaches use gaming principles, fully developed games, or other aspects of what some describe as “gameful learning” to increase engagement, enhance learning, and explore new models of education. Game mechanics reinforce the fact that failure is neither a setback nor an outcome but rather an indication that more work is needed to master the skill or knowledge at hand. Games can be highly motivational and engaging for students, and they have the potential to demonstrate that learning can be measured not just by grades but by competencies.
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It is surely the dream of any teenage gamer: a subsidised college education that involves sitting around all day playing video games. - New Zealand Herald
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gamNearly everyone who plays video games has had to fight off the perception that gamers are just loser loners who set up in their parents' basements. But while armchair debaters have long pointed out that just isn't the case -- citing the rise of social gaming, mobile gaming, the fact that the U.S. spent $13.5 billion on gaming in 2013 -- there hasn't been a lot of hard data on hand.
Until now.
Admittedly, citing data may not help fight the perception that gamers are nerds. But the results of a new study commissioned by the video game streaming network Twitch and conducted by noted social researcher Neil Howe (a.k.a. the man credited with coining the term "millenial") offer an entirely new picture of the gaming community. The study suggests that gamers actually tend to be more social, more successful and more educated than the non-gaming population.
The study, released Thursday by Howe's LifeCourse Associates consulting firm, surveyed more than 1,000 people via the Internet about their gaming habits and then pulled some basic demographic information. For purposes of this study, a "gamer" was defined as anyone who has played a game on a digital device in the past 60 days. Approximately 63 percent of those surveyed fit that definition.
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It's been about ten years since Sony popularised exergaming - games where you move your body along with the game - with the release of Eye Toy. The device projected players into - New Zealand Herald
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While I was working on "6 steps to use gamification in your classroom" I came across this interesting graphic which sheds some light on the difference between gamification and serious games. The words gamification, games, and serious games are not to be used interachangeably and here is why.
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List of Serious Games Databases By admin on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 15:44Hi everyone! Here is a list of all the educational games databases I have found. I thought it would prove useful to y'all. Send it around to all the people you think would benefit. Let me know if you find others!Take care!
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With Google getting into the console business,and Apple getting back into it, we're in for a bloodier war than anyone expected.
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As a kid, Maru Nihoniho wagged high school in favour of spacies machine classics Ghosts 'n Goblins , Defender and Space Invaders .
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This online university set out to discover whether the use of gaming techniques could help students get beyond whatever obstructions were holding them back in one crucial gatekeeper course. The results were dramatic.
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This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.
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The return of Nintendo characters Mario, Bayonetta, Donkey Kong and Pokemon is announced in a video stream from the E3 gaming exhibition.
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
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A game about creating games? Well that’s the wager that Greenheart Games took with its business simulationGame Dev Tycoon. A serious game giving you the chance to replay the history of video games from the 80’s until nowadays.
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In the age of smartphones and tablets, can new versions of the Xbox and PlayStation dominate the living room like their predecessors, asks Tom Chatfield.
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In the battle against cancer, one video game is taking the deadly disease head-on. And some young patients are the winners.
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Xbox One will be Microsoft's eyes and ears in your home, but that only increases the company's burden to safeguard our privacy.
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Damnit we have work to do ... but not before we have another go on this annoyingly difficult web-based game
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Infographic on Angry Birds vs Angry Birds Space with best ever entertaining game downloaded and played with mobile apps, commercial toys, accessories, Clothing
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The new phone game couldn't be simpler, writes Joe Shute. Or more addictive.
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Fan anger after Nintendo confirms it will profit from advertisements placed on gameplay videos uploaded by gamers.