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Parents no longer have an excuse not to know what is up with video games these days. Parents and teachers can also see what GOOD things video games can do!
Seriously, stop reading this and go get the download.
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Blog Archives
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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Students at Shadow Mountain High School, Phoenix, AZ Recommend Immune Attack
Wonder whether your students will like Immune Attack? Wonder whether it is game enough to hold their attention? Well watch this video.
And oh, if you work for a AAA video game company you can reach me by email!
Thank you to Debbie Kovesdy, her students and the biology teachers who participated in our evaluation.
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Immune Attack in the press.
Cell Article on Video games 2010
Amy Maxmen wrote an article about Immune Attack for Cell! Maxmen keeps you up to date about the push from the President and First Lady to make sure we are using video games and all learning technology to their fullest potential.
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Posted in Biology, Chemistry
Tags: Cell Biology, Game Research, microbiology, Molecular Science, News, News, science education, Science Games
Tags: Cell Biology, Game Research, microbiology, Molecular Science, News, News, science education, Science Games
Exercise while gaming!
Paul Ballas, OD, of our own Science Advisory Group, wrote an excellent opinion piece for Wired.
Paul thinks that video games that require us to be more active might help us actually become more active. People exercise more when they can do something fun for exercise,
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: Game Design, Game Research, Middle School, New Technology, News, Serious Game Design, Video Game Innovation
Tags: Game Design, Game Research, Middle School, New Technology, News, Serious Game Design, Video Game Innovation
