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 Send to email | Are Games Teaching Kids The Scientific Method? [Science] in Science Culture Education News Schools World of Warcraft |  By Stuart Houghton
el 09-Sep-2008 |  The 'Games are making kids stupid' meme is as fresh as ever, but new research from the university of Wisconsin suggests that video games might, in fact, be creating a generation of scientific thinkers - and not just through Dr Kawashima's Brain Training.
Constance Steinkuehler, professor of Education Communications (and WoW undead priest) noticed that the rest of her gaming clan (mainly teenage boys) were discussing theories on how to take down bosses and methodically testing these theories through experiment. The thought struck her - they were applying the scientific method. They were doing science. Steinkuehler has published a research paper entitled "Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds" which finds that around 50% of WoW players use 'systems based reasoning' to analyse game events while around 10% actively construct a scientific model of the game. How Videogames Blind Us With Science [Wired]
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| Are Games Teaching Kids The Scientific Method? [Science] | | The 'Games are making kids stupid' meme is as fresh as ever, but new research from the university of Wisconsin suggests that video games might, in fact, be creating a generation of scientific thinkers - and not just through Dr Kawashi [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Sep-2008 by Stuart Houghton in Science Culture Education News Schools World of Warcraft
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| World Science Festival 2008 NYC (photos) |  MAKE hit the World Science Festival in NYC today, packed with tons of people - the event took over Washington Square park and parts of NYU. For the kids there were lots of hands on exhibits and for adults (and kids) lots of sessions/events/talks - it was so popular the ticketed events were sold out [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Jun-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Alex CF's Henrich Emille Rectangle |  AlexCF (Brighton, England), who defines himself as a “cryptozoological scientific assemblage artist” is constantly exploring new ways in which he can express his art through various “investigation kits,” retro-scientific instruments, faux-cryptozoological abominations, field notebooks, faux scientific documents, etc. In his latest piece, he creates a fantastic storyline abo [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| UK Minister Wants Kids to Play More Games [Politics] | | Who says UK lawmakers are hostile to video games? Tom Watson, the government's Cabinet Office Minister wants kids to play more. And not just edutainment or shovelware ? violent ones are OK. "Basically, I think playing games is a good thing," Watson (pictured) told the Mirror. " [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Dec-2008 by Owen Good in Politics parliament United Kingdom
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| Science Education | | A teacher at Netroots Nation asks what can be done to improve science education, and to get principles of science as a process back into classes within the NCLB framework.
Gore responded briefly that it is "really harmful that science education… [has] been pushed out of the experience our children have in schools in order to teach to a test."
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| Rethinking Kids' Games: Disney Interactive At E3 [E308] | | What determines whether or not a title is a "kids' game" or not? The simplicity of gameplay? Kid-friendly branding, like licensed TV stars or cartoons? Do you associate kids' games with low quality? What got me thinking about this was a stroll through Disney Inter [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in E308 Disney Original rhythm games Ultimate Band
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| Surprise, Kids Want Games For Christmas [Research] | | In 1986, I got the original Pirates! for Christmas. It was smiles all round. In fact, I think 9 out of 10 things I asked for that year were C64 games. Twenty-two years on and little has changed, with a survey by Weekly Reader Research finding that 90% of kids aged b [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Sep-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Research News
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| Science says: Game violence makes players relax |  Filed under: CultureThe link between playing violent games and short-term increases in amorphous measures of "aggression" has been well-established by science. Or has it? Develop takes note of a new study being presented today that shows gam [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Apr-2008 by Kyle Orland in aggressionsciencestudyviolenceworld-of-warcraftWoW
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| Brown opts for morality over science on ‘lethal skunk’ | | Takes to the sofa to defend drug reclassification
Gordon Brown looks set to ignore scientific advice and upgrade cannabis next week. There is no official word from Downing Street, but Brown dropped heavy hints to that traditional home of serious political debate, GMTV.
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