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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...Interested in adding games to your classroom teaching?
13. August 2011
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In case all the ideas on this website aren’t enough, I just found a great blog that gives you a steady stream of cool classroom ideas, mostly for elementary school, but I already see a couple I can modify to use in my community college classroom. The author is Mike Perry, and he taught high [...]
Continue reading...McVideoGame: the other side of business gaming
15. July 2011
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In a way, it could be argued that most games teach business concepts, insofar as a great many games center on resource-management. Games as divergent as chess, Monopoly, poker, and even baseball (think about deploying the right players in the right situations) require players to manage limited resources to effect the best possible results. Add [...]
Continue reading...Test Review Jeopardy
15. July 2011
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One of the easiest ways to incorporate games into teaching is to use Jeopardy. I have used it to liven up test reviews in courses as disparate as calculus and remedial arithmetic. Free templates for the game can be gotten by searching “PowerPoint Jeopardy Template.” You can then enter questions and answers into the template. [...]
Continue reading...Monopoly Mod
15. July 2011
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Created by Francesco Crocco Objective To simulate how class inequality increases over time due to inherited wealth, land, and privilege Procedure 1. Define the word “monopoly” and talk about the ideas that the game embodies (competition, monopolization, survival of the fittest, level playing field, social mobility, the American Dream) 2. Make teams and assign each [...]
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