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Check out this TeacherTube Video about how a teacher is using Civilization III to teach history. Good stuff. It sure beats a memorization and repetition of facts. I especially like the viewpoint of the kids playing the game and learning history. Also, having a sceptic who eventually converts is a nice touch for the piece. […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →One of the main complaints about video games are that they encourage obesity and inactivity…that’s not always the case. With the sometimes-sedentary senior citizens,video games are actually getting them moving. The Nintendo Wii is being used by many senior citizens for exercises and recreation at senior centers across the country…See Hoover senior citizens get a […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →So it is Saturday night, the kids are out of the house for a few hours at friends houses and my wife and I are sitting on the couch enjoying some peace and quite…she turns to me and says, “Let’s go downstairs and play…Guitar Hero.” In the past I could never get my wife to […]
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Leave a Comment (10) →Recently, I have been guest blogging in Phil Charron’s (of Learning Simulation) class “Theories of Electronic Communication” which he teaches in the Philadelphia area. Guest blogging has been a lot of fun as the students were assigned to read the first chapter of my book (available here) and then blog about their impressions of the […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Often, it is too expensive to build a game or simulation from scratch for use in the classroom. However, some very clever teachers are using commercially available games to achieve educational goals. Here are three examples.First example is Kurt Squire…read about what he has done in the article Let the Games Begin. Here is a […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Hey, it’s Monday…it’s stressful…YOU need a stress reliever! Video Games to the Rescue (of course). Researchers have discovered that a video simple game asking the player to find the smiling face on the computer screen helps to reduce stress. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal say that tests have shown that finding a smiling face […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →So today is an incredible day of travel, 6 hours from France to Philly and then 5 more hours to Salt Lake City. Still, worth the trip for the training conference. Already have many dinner plans for a few evenings, good time to see old friends and I got a lot done for my three […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Part of learning is expanding your mind and understanding different perspectives or points of view. One extremely effective way of doing that is to “walk a mile in the other person’s shoes” in other words…experience life as the other person does. This is sometimes much easier said than done since adopting another’s view point can […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →In case you haven’t seen or heard, Mark Oehlert is going to be giving a presentation titled Living and Working with Games and Gamers as part of the Adobe Luminary eSeminar Series: eLearning. Mark is a great speaker and expert on the topic, you don’t want to miss it. Here is the description: With Gen […]
Continue Reading →Pictured from Left to Right are Karl Kapp, Greg Walsh and Steve Sugar. Three guys talking about games (apparently arranged by height). Recently I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of games with two interesting and exciting gentleman. One was Steve Sugar who has written a half-a-dozen books on what he calls “19th […]
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