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“Why I let my Students Cheat” — terrific article!
From the article… A week before the test, I told my class that the Game Theory exam would be insanely hard—far harder than any that had established my rep as a hard prof. But as recompense, for this one time only, students could cheat. They could bring and use anything or anyone they liked, including [...]
Continue reading...What’s Better than One THATCamp about Gaming?
21. December 2012
Two, that’s right, two THATCamps about games and gaming! Both are coming up in the spring — here are some details: THATCamp Games II April 19-21, 2013 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio THATCamp Epic Play May 24-25, 2013 University of Washington, Seattle And what is a THATCamp, you say? The Humanities and Technology Camps [...]
Continue reading...BMCC Students to Display Games about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Dec. 17
11. December 2012
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On Monday, December 17, 11:00am-12:00pm in the Richard Harris Terrace at BMCC, Prof. Tali Noimann’s English 201 students will present their group projects. They have been working on original board games based on the R.L. Stevenson novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Please come to support their hard work and play six incredibly creative games. (Two of them are [...]
Continue reading...Library Scavenger Hunt Postmortem
21. October 2012
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Last July I blogged about wanting to create a library game for our new student orientation at City Tech this Fall. As is all-too-common over the summer, time got the better of me and I didn’t have a chance to create the game I’d initially wanted to. Which is okay! What I did do, instead, [...]
Continue reading...More news from the algebra front lines…. (a failed game)
24. September 2012
Today in my remedial algebra class, I thought I would make an inequalities game. I had this great idea that I would put up on the board a whole bunch of inequalities, and each group would add or subtract or multiply or divide different things to these inequalities, and we would see if the result [...]
Continue reading...Remedial Algebra Game
19. September 2012
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I often have trouble thinking of meaningful games to play in my remedial algebra class. These are the students who are most disengaged with traditional teaching, but they are often also the hardest to play games with … the same things that made them not-so great students, make them not-so great at listening to the [...]
Continue reading...Oh, the Things You Can Do (with Videogames)
25. August 2012
I’ve just finished reading How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost, and I can heartily recommend it to anyone interested in games-based learning or game studies more broadly. Bogost is a prominent games scholar from the Georgia Institute of Technology and founder of the game design company Persuasive Games. I’ve read many of [...]
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