Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesPredatory Learning | Boston ReviewThat something, if not explicitly religious, is, fundamentally, spiritual and forward-looking—qualities that are in short supply in the many hundreds of American communities like Racine, where teachers, parents, and students are surrounded by decline. That motivation … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteCheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?. In the end, the students learned what social insects like ants and termites have known for hundreds of millions of years. To win at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutesFrom time to time I come across a number of useful resources, and rather than bookmark them (never to be found again), I am putting them in my blog so I can search for them. This is one of those … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHIS: They’re playing in the comment section of a website about video games: That’s three levels of virtual world created only to entertain them. 5 Gamer Comments That Give Straight White Guys a Bad Name | Cracked.com. This is brilliant. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a record of places I have bookmarked. (I also post them to Diigo, but since I don’t like to leave stuff only in the cloud, I am also keeping a copy here. The Rise of the New Groupthink … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutehttp://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdrianChmielarz/20130509/191987/You_Have_an_Idea_for_a_Game__Heres_Why_Nobody_Cares.php Gamasutra: Adrian Chmielarz’s Blog – You Have an Idea for a Game – Here’s Why Nobody Cares The following blog was, unless otherwise noted, independently written by a member of Gamasutra’s game development community. The thoughts and opinions expressed … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Report on the value of Game-based Learning Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions The role of video games in teaching and learning is a source of debate among many educators, researchers and in the popular press. Detractors and … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow not to write a PhD thesis | General | Times Higher Education. Many of these apply to papers submitted for publication, generally. I have lost track of how many game papers I have reviewed where the authors had an … Continue reading