Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesNews: Gaming as Teaching Tool – Inside Higher Ed. I’ve seen this kind of angle before – I think it has a lot of potential and deserves more attention. One of the key lessons we can learn from a gaming … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve been looking around at a lot of educational sites and I keep running into the same thing. Many of them LOOK nice – I mean: they have nice colours, cute or otherwise appealing characters and graphics; some of them … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesI have a former colleague who sometimes posts about how busy her life is – she is a professor as well as being a wife & mother, and her days are pretty full. That got me to thinking about my … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesDigital Domain – A Strong Password Isn’t the Strongest Security – NYTimes.com. I agree with most of this. It should be MY business to choose a good password, and IT’s business to keep their system secure if I choose a … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesVideo Games – In Medal of Honor, Role Playing Includes Taliban – NYTimes.com. Real live soldiers are dying for the cause of freedom (not to mention piles of innocent bystanders), yet having the freedom to play what you want and … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not often that we get to see a new discipline be born and grow up these days, but that’s exactly what we have with Game Studies. Although there were indeed people looking at and writing about games before 2002 … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was working on my PhD (2003-2008), I found it very hard to find any decent reviews of educational games. There are plenty of reasons for this, including: Teachers aren’t, for the most part, gamers and so really have … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had more than one educator tell me that they thought all simulations were educational. If you are looking at simulations designed to be educational, then, sure – it’s a tautology. But coming from CS and having some experience with … Continue reading