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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Game Design?
With all the articles about video games I figured I would post this link to a Master's Degree program in Stanford University
Last fall I took ED 367: Restructuring Classrooms with Technology. It was a great course and I highly recommend it to all interested in digital literacies; there was a lot of hands-on interaction with technology, and Prof Barnett is always on the cutting edge and very knowledgeable. One of the topics covered was gaming—here are some of the links that we explored. This link is a TED talk about how one game creator wants to harness the skills of gamers to solve real world problems. She also discusses the various skills that gamers actually gain through gaming. http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html This site is for teachers to set up virtual quests for their students—if I remember correctly, I think that teacher can input curriculum and students can interact in the virtual world to solve problems. The one explored allowed the player to check the status various fish tanks and try to determine why certain fish were becoming ill. http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/ This website is a great resource for students to try to learn more about world problems and come up with ideas on how to solve them. http://www.gamesforchange.org/ This site is for basic skill practice. http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ This page is a resource for great educational games on various topics. http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/08/17/50-great-sites-for-serious-educational-games/ This is a NASA site that has great games for students. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/index.html
Last fall I took ED 367: Restructuring Classrooms with Technology. It was a great course and I highly recommend it to all interested in digital literacies; there was a lot of hands-on interaction with technology, and Prof Barnett is always on the cutting edge and very knowledgeable. One of the topics covered was gaming—here are some of the links that we explored.
ReplyDeleteThis link is a TED talk about how one game creator wants to harness the skills of gamers to solve real world problems. She also discusses the various skills that gamers actually gain through gaming.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
This site is for teachers to set up virtual quests for their students—if I remember correctly, I think that teacher can input curriculum and students can interact in the virtual world to solve problems. The one explored allowed the player to check the status various fish tanks and try to determine why certain fish were becoming ill.
http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/
This website is a great resource for students to try to learn more about world problems and come up with ideas on how to solve them.
http://www.gamesforchange.org/
This site is for basic skill practice.
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
This page is a resource for great educational games on various topics.
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/08/17/50-great-sites-for-serious-educational-games/
This is a NASA site that has great games for students.
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/index.html