Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor Creators of Video Games, a Faint Line on Cloning – NYTimes.com. Indie developers simply don’t have the infrastructure to produce games in the same way that the big companies do. Yes, I know that the big companies all started … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWidespread Celebrations But No Pardon For Turing. This is Alan Turing Year – the year we are to celebrate the accomplishments and life of this remarkable man. As a computer scientist, he is one of the icons of our discipline. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesGamasutra – Features – Jerked Around by the Magic Circle – Clearing the Air Ten Years Later. A broad strokes definition: The magic circle is the idea that a boundary exists between a game and the world outside the game. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes » Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com. I shared this on FB the other day and got some responses I had to think about for a while. First, here’s the summary of the list: Force them … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Avengers: Strike a Pose! Here we have the original ad pic for the new Captain America film (note the position of the Black Widow) followed by how it might look if all the superheros were made to pose like us … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteInteresting…. Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat. The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even … Continue reading