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Tag: learning

Portals and Intutitions

June 22, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

If you haven’t yet heard, Valve announced Teach With Portals, a new initiative to help students learn about physics by…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, intuition, learning, pfl, physics, portal

RTFM

July 15, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

I just came across a great study out of MIT about how game manuals get used – but not by…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: AI, learning, literacy, manuals

On Playing Nurse

June 17, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

I’ve been trying to pull together my thoughts on gamification, but I haven’t figured out how to pick out a…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: gamification, learning, life

Electing the Smart Guy

May 4, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

Ill Doctrine, of all people, got me wondering: can we fix our cultural hostility to electing smart people to office…

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Posted in: Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: intelligence, learning, politics, project, school

Mashable on Social Gaming

February 17, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

Mashable has a nice piece on social gaming … except I’m a bit puzzled by how they’re using the term.…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: learning

Whatever Pokemon Does So Well

January 22, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

The Phylomon Project tries to “do whatever Pokemon does so well, but with the reality of biodiversity and ecology providing…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: biology, learning, review

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