Tag: science and gaming
Week 8 response - "a reason to reason"
by marcc on February 23, 2016 7:24 pm
The Steinkuehler and Duncan reading touches on something important that I think has less to do with science education than with the motivation and purpose behind reasoning and learning. Their argument is that games, and particularly MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, might be excellent settings to foster scientific thinking. They note that in the WoW online forums,… Read more Week 8 response - "a reason to reason"
DQC Week 5
by thuygon on February 4, 2016 7:57 am
I thought it was incredibly interesting that the University of Washington essentially crowd-sourced video gamers to manipulate and develop the genetic make-up of proteins to eventually find a solution to a monkey virus related to AIDS. This is clearly a lot of potential applications in other areas of medical research (which is currently being used… Read more DQC Week 5
