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New Course Discusses Video Game Design and How Gaming Has Shaped History

The course teaches students how history is represented in games, how games have influenced history, and which methods are used in video game research. "We wanted to convey some of these ideas about how to do research about video games, about how to think about video games historically, and how to study video games like novels or films," Bolman said.

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The power of gamified information and how to use it to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic

Our ambitious goal as a company is to use gamification to drive collective change in the attitudes and behavior of humanity, to build a better world. When it comes to our largest clientele, the life science industry, the desired collective changes in attitudes and behavior have to do with e.g. compliance to treatments, engagement to prevention, patient education and general awareness.

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Video games act as catalysts to boost kids' learning abilities

From my standpoint as a video game designer and scholar who specializes in game-based learning, I don't see a need to limit video game play among students during the school week. Scholars such as James Paul Gee, a longtime literacy professor, have repeatedly shown that video games can be used to facilitate learning in the K-12 classroom.

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Professor Believes a New Video Game Rating System Could Help Parents and Kids

As the father of four children, two of whom are gamers, University of Virginia psychology professor Daniel Willingham recently found himself wondering about the educational value of video games. Willingham was struck by the fact there is a rating system to help parents keep their kids away from content that isn't age-appropriate, but nothing to lead them toward games that could actually teach something.

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Digital game-based teaching model in the 'new normal'

Taking into consideration that the android robot Sophia was granted citizenship, the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the engrossing Neuralink chips and of course SpaceX, it is important we take notice that teaching has exponentially developed since the days of the old classical military order of wanting to control people in school classrooms in order to dictate information.

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VR and gamification are set to transform training and education in 2021

The FE News Channel gives you the latest education news and updates on emerging education strategies and the #FutureofEducation and the #FutureofWork. Our specialisation is providing you with a mixture of the latest education news, our stance is always positive, sector building and sharing different perspectives and views from thought leaders, to provide you with a think tank of new ideas and solutions to bring the education sector together and come up with new innovative solutions and ideas.

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