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In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching “higher-order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.”
I need to start playing video games.
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Well, either that or role-playing games, which have the same reward mechanisms, with the addition of human contact and a much greater reliance on the player for reading and math.
Did you read the TIMES article on the Second Life guy?
gosh, that was creepy
although Second Life isn't a game, is it?
Second Life isn't a game, no. It's...strange and very interesting.
I started a free account because I read articles about how schools and universities are paying money to establish islands/worlds there for their students to interact.
There's some interesting potential, but an enormous amount of focus on currency (Linden dollars, I think?).
There's also a teen version. Lost of cyber-currency flying around which translates into real money...someone knows more about this than me.
So far, I've found interaction to be shallow.
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