Using games in education can make learning more interesting and fun, but they also serve another purpose that is perhaps even more important–games teach us that it’s okay to fail.
In the run-up to the 2012 election, various candidates approached me and my design firm Dopamine to discuss how gamification could be used to help them get elected. Although we ultimately lacked the time to do […]
The educational system has changed. Though for the most part, the concept remains the same – instill knowledge and applicable skills to the next generation so that they may reach higher education, find good jobs […]
The Wednesday event on museums will be both recorded, livestreamed, and
archived; I’m not sure about the Monday publishing event, but we’ll look
into it.
Hi Ben — yes. Please see our demo site, where you can see the WordPress-based wiki that we built (it uses BuddyPress Docs instead of Mediawiki, which is what we run on the Commons). Here’s a direct link to the […]
In addition to waging an unprecedented war of words with Hamas on Twitter over its escalating conflict in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has introduced “game dynamics” on its war blog.
Would young people learn science better if it were packaged in a videogame?That’s the question at the heart of the Selene project. Originally funded by NASA and now carried on through a four-year grant from the […]
My one of friends tweeted about the meeting in Brooklyn on mental health aspects of recent hurricane. I would rather call it Post Traumatic Sandy Disorder. It is sort of post traumatic stress or distress […]
Rasha Alsaidi and Robert Duncan from the York College Transformative Games Initiative presented a paper at the York College Research Conversations series. The talk was sponsored in part by the Office of […]
Ever wonder what it would look like to travel at the speed of light? The folks at MIT’s education games lab have created a simple 3D simulator to teach the masses about the counterintuitive principles of one of […]