TechAndComputer (Feb. 16, 2011) It's a frustrating problem for many of today's parents: Little Jacob or Isabella is utterly indifferent to schoolwork during the day but then happily spends all evening engrossed in the latest video game.
The solution isn't to banish the games, says one Florida State University researcher. A far better approach, advises Valerie J. Shute, is to make the learning experience more enjoyable by creating video games...
TechAndComputer (Feb. 16, 2011) It's a frustrating problem for many of today's parents: Little Jacob or Isabella is utterly indifferent to schoolwork during the day but then happily spends all evening engrossed in the latest video game.
The solution isn't to banish the games, says one...
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Video games to enhance learning
- 15 February 2011
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Video games are good for girls, if parents play along
- 01 February 2011
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TechAndComputer (Feb. 2, 2011) Dads who still haven't given up video games now have some justification to keep on playing -- if they have a daughter.
Researchers from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life conducted a study on video games and children between 11 and 16 years old. They found that girls who played video games with a parent enjoyed a number of advantages. Those girls behaved better, felt more connected to their families...
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Researchers from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life conducted a study on video games and children between 11 and 16 years old. They found that girls who played video games with a parent enjoyed a number of advantages. Those girls behaved better, felt more connected to their families...
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Mixed-reality scavenger hunt with a smartphone: Just play the game or create one of your own
- 31 January 2011
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TechAndComputer (Jan. 31, 2011) Cologne, a little mixed up: an architectural detail of a church building shows up on a smartphone near the right bank of the Rhine. It does not 'belong there', so it's an exciting challenge to identify it and to take it to its original location, maybe the famous cathedral. This is what the world looks like in Tidy City, a new location-based mixed reality game developed by Fraunhofer FIT for the latest generation...
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How computer games could help us all make better decisions in life
- 20 January 2011
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TechAndComputer (Jan. 20, 2011) A prototype computer game has been developed to help improve decision making skills in all aspects of our lives.
Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a team at Queen's University Belfast has developed a prototype that could be built on by commercial games manufacturers and turned into an e-learning or training tool for professionals in all walks of life -- and for the...
TechAndComputer (Jan. 20, 2011) A prototype...
Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a team at Queen's University Belfast has developed a prototype that could be built on by commercial games manufacturers and turned into an e-learning or training tool for professionals in all walks of life -- and for the...
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Living cells used to create 'biotic' video games
- 14 January 2011
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TechAndComputer (Jan. 14, 2011) The digital revolution has triggered a wild proliferation of video games, but what of the revolution in biotechnology? Does it have the potential to spawn its own brood of games? Stanford physicist Ingmar Riedel-Kruse has begun developing "biotic games" involving paramecia and other living organisms. He hopes the games lead to advances in education and crowd-sourcing of laboratory research while helping to raise...
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