Part Two: Integrating the design of a game into your lessons/Using video game design to get your students to interact and learn great amounts from a local scientist.
1. Choose a topic you wish to address.
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Video Games in Class–A Professional Development Course Part One
Part One: Integrating a game into your lessons
1. Decide what to teach. Start with your list of Principles and Concepts you want to teach in the semester. Games are good for conveying vocabulary and facts, but their true advantage is in conveying abstract or complex concepts.
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Video games in Class–a Teacher Development Course Introduction
Video Games in the classroom-A Professional Development Course
Video Games like Immune Attack present scientific concepts in an intuitive format. Watching a cell react to a chemical signal in a movie like Inner Life of the Cell is helpful in visualizing the concepts of cell biology.
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Teacher made an Immune Attack Demonstration video!
Check out this great Immune Attack demonstration video!!
If you would like to see what Immune Attack is exactly like, watch MrKenbinkley’s video of himself playing Immune Attack!
Spoiler alert! This video is better if you are a teacher, and less interesting if you are a PLAYER!
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Teachers role in a high tech classroom
Everyone seems to have an opinion about teacher’s role in the classroom of the future. Some claim that teachers should get out of the way and let kids simply have unfettered access to the internet. Others imagine a classroom in which teachers curate the vast world of information that is available and facilitate students’
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STEM Video Game Challenge!
STEM Challenge!
This fall the first National STEM Video Game Challenge invited professional, collegiate, and youth developers to submit prototypes of games to inspire STEM learning for kids pre-k to 4th grade.
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Serious Game Design: Maximizing Engagement
A friend of mine just referred me to a great blog on education, training and learning technology… by Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. Dr. Landers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, USA. The blog is called Thoughts of a Neo-Academic. Richard wrote a series of blogs in September 2010 about a series of research papers published in Journal of General Psychology that are focused on video games.
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Using Immune Attack to teach about Internet research.
I am experimenting with using Immune Attack to get students interested in science. In particular, to get kids to ask questions about nanotech, chemistry or biology, etc in the game and to research their answer on the Web. I presented this idea to the students of Mr. Kenneth Leslie’s engineering class at McKinley Technology High School in Washington,
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