Melanie Stegman, yours truly, will be presenting her research on Immune Attack, development of the sequal and all about using game to teach and learn. April 23, 6PM. At the FabLab on North Capitol at P. If you have made a game, bring it with you!
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Students at Shadow Mountain High School, Phoenix, AZ Recommend Immune Attack
Wonder whether your students will like Immune Attack? Wonder whether it is game enough to hold their attention? Well watch this video.
And oh, if you work for a AAA video game company you can reach me by email!
Thank you to Debbie Kovesdy, her students and the biology teachers who participated in our evaluation.
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Serious Game Design: Theme is not Meaning
If you want to design a game that teaches something, first define carefully what that thing is. Second, design your game to require the player to learn that thing in order to win your game. This concept is very important for Serious Game designers, but it is also very important for every game designer.
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USA Science and Engineering Festival!
At the USA Science and Engineering Expo, we had a great time introducing our “free Video Game” to 4000 people. While kids of all ages ran into our booth to see for themselves whether Immune Attack was any good or not, parents were happy to hear that our video game is about white blood cells fighting bacteria.
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Posted in Biology, Chemistry
Tags: high school, Mainstream Science!, Molecular Science, News, Policy, science education, Science of Immune Attack
Tags: high school, Mainstream Science!, Molecular Science, News, Policy, science education, Science of Immune Attack
September Newsletter
You can read the September 2010 Newsletter here.
Volume 1.4, September 2010.
Technology Enables Tiny Dreams
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August Newsletter
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And please give us feed back about anything at all at our feedback survey (extremely short).
And please! If you are a teacher,
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Want to Design Science Video Games?
We need you!
FAS Educational Technology Program is collaborating with Muzzy Lane Software to create a series of video games that help middle school students and teachers prepare for middle school science proficiency exams. The collaboration is intended to draw in teachers, students, game designers and anyone interested to contributing to the design of the games.
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: Game Design, high school, Middle School, News, Science, Science of Immune Attack, Teacher's Guide, TEACHERS USING IMMUNE ATTACK
Tags: Game Design, high school, Middle School, News, Science, Science of Immune Attack, Teacher's Guide, TEACHERS USING IMMUNE ATTACK
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
