I attended Games for Change 2010 in NYC in May. I was really excited to meet Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation, National Endowment for the Arts. How about that? The NEA is interested in Video Games, so they must be art, right?
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Hello everyone!
Our newsletter will explain our hopes and dreams for Immune Attack, will link you to surveys that are important to us because they let us know what you like and don’t like about Immune Attack. Our Newsletter will also give you information about educational video games,
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Tags: molecular science, News, News, Newsletter, science education, Science Games, subscription, technology
Tags: molecular science, News, News, Newsletter, science education, Science Games, subscription, technology
Where to find Science Games
Here is the list of science games that we are continuously updating for you.
Flash Games played over the web:
MedMyst (about hunting down infectious diseases)
CSI:The Experience (just like the show, only you need to use your own brain!)
N-Squad You take on the role of a forensic scientist,
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A History of Immune Attack
2001 The Beginning: Gathering Evidence.
The Federation of American Scientists started gathering research about how technology could be used to transform education in 2001. Under the guidance of their new president Henry Kelly, the FAS launched the Learning Science and Technology Research and Development Roadmap project,
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E.O. Wilson says Games are the future of Education
Dr. E. O. Wilson is interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition by Will Wright, the creator of the video game, The Sims. Dr. Wilson is Professor Emeritus (retired) at Harvard.
You can listen to the interview on NPR’s website. At the beginning of the interview, E. O.
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Tags: ants, evolution, evolution of learning, learning by doing, News, Science of Immune Attack, Teacher's Guide
Tags: ants, evolution, evolution of learning, learning by doing, News, Science of Immune Attack, Teacher's Guide
Making Molecular Biology Video Games!
McKinley Technology High School students, and other students from across Washington, DC, learned to make their own video games this summer, using a program called Game Maker. They also learned to create their own 3D images. What kind of games dis they make? What kinds of objects did they model?
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Tags: Be the Game, DCPS, game maker, high school, Maya, News, programming, Teacher's Guide, Washington DC Public School
Tags: Be the Game, DCPS, game maker, high school, Maya, News, programming, Teacher's Guide, Washington DC Public School
Art Imitating Life Science
So, we make a video game intended to teach students Immunology and cell biology. So we are obviously interested in the many ways that a creative media like video games, graphic design, song writing, story writing, and even music video can be used to present science effectively. And let is also remember that the process of writing that story is actually a rigorous course of education for the author.
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McKinley Technology High School learn to design video games, students become intructors
Edutopia made another video about McKinley High School. It describes an iTEST funded project directed by Dr Kevin Clark at George Mason University, in which high school and college students are trained as instructors and then assist high school teachers during the school year. The high school classes they help to teach are educational game design!
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Using Immune Attack to teach about Internet research.
I am experimenting with using Immune Attack to get students interested in science. In particular, to get kids to ask questions about nanotech, chemistry or biology, etc in the game and to research their answer on the Web. I presented this idea to the students of Mr. Kenneth Leslie’s engineering class at McKinley Technology High School in Washington,
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Are we human or are we bacteria?
NPR just reported on research done on the various kinds of bacteria that live on our body. NPR is referring to new report from the lab of Julia Segre, Ph.D., at the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH. Here is the link to the article that NPR is talking about in PubMedCentral.
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Posted in Biology, Chemistry
Tags: bacteria, bassler, Chron's Disease., genome, human genome, microbiology, microorganisms, NPR, Obesity, Science of Immune Attack, segre, TED Conference
Tags: bacteria, bassler, Chron's Disease., genome, human genome, microbiology, microorganisms, NPR, Obesity, Science of Immune Attack, segre, TED Conference
