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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Taking best advantage of Learning Technologies.
Welcome to Immune Defense
Our new game is a two dimensional strategy game called Immune Defense. Seven kinds of white bloods cells can be bought and deployed in the never-ending, always-escalating war against 15 viral and bacterial pathogens.
Part 1 of Immune Defense to be released February 1,
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Posted in Biology, Chemistry
Tags: Molecular Science, New Technology, News, Science Games, Teacher's Guide, Video Game Innovation
Tags: Molecular Science, New Technology, News, Science Games, Teacher's Guide, Video Game Innovation
STEM Video Game Challenge and Teaching Youngsters to Program
Hi. Do you have a kid at home who is 8? Or are you a kid who is 8? Perhaps you are a kid who is 14, or 34. What would you like to do when you grow up? Would you like to help the environment, work for major league baseball,
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: New Technology, News, Serious Game Design, Teacher's Guide, Uncategorized, Video Game Innovation
Tags: New Technology, News, Serious Game Design, Teacher's Guide, Uncategorized, Video Game Innovation
Stop reading this post
And go get this free download.
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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Upcoming Event: What Can a Video Game Teach?
NSTA Science Rocks Pictures
What does a scientist look like? See above.
The National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) had a big Science Rocks event at their annual meeting last week. A few of us lucky scientist types were invited to represent how cool being a scientist can be!
Cindy Hasselbring (Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow &
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New science teacher academy NYC
http://www.nsta.org/academy/2011/FellowApplication.aspx
If you are a new science teacher, you can apply to the New York Academy of Science for a summer academy designed just for you.
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Posted in Biology, Chemistry
Tags: Molecular Science, News, science education, teacher, Teacher's Guide, Uncategorized
Tags: Molecular Science, News, science education, teacher, Teacher's Guide, Uncategorized
Making science video games: Spore and the misrepresentation of science.
A friend said to me,
“I am trying to make a video game to create interest in engineering. Someone told me Spore taught a lot about evolution. What do you think?”
I did play Spore and I was very disappointed. I was angry, actually, because the things that are so cool about evolution were not present.
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My school will not let me download Immune Attack
Dear Melanie,
Our school has a filter which blocks the Immune Attack download site. Could you perhaps send the game an email attachment?
Sincerely,
Karl
aka, teacher at a K-12 school anywhere in the US
Dear Karl,
Yes, I am familiar with that arch enemy of educational software progrIt does fit on a CD.
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: New Technology, News, Science Games, Teacher's Guide, technical difficulties, unity3d, Video Game Innovation
Tags: New Technology, News, Science Games, Teacher's Guide, technical difficulties, unity3d, Video Game Innovation
Mice Needed
Dear Faithful Blog Readers. I need your help! Immune Attack the video game is best played with a mouse, but many schools have laptops with trackpads. Do you have an old two-button mouse laying around? If you send it to me, I’ll put it to good use! I’ll give it to teachers who are evaluating Immune Attack and don’t have mice for their laptops.
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