Tagged: gaming

Children live online more than ever – we need better definitions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ screen time - News

Guest Author • Oct 11, 2021 •

• children,
• gaming,
• New Zealand stories,
• screentime

Kathryn MacCallum, University of Canterbury and Cheryl Brown, University of Canterbury   The pandemic has fundamentally altered every part of our lives, not least the time we spend on digital devices. For young people in particular, the blurred line between recreational and educational screen time presents new challenges we are only beginning to appreciate. Even before COVID, there were concerns … Read More

Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too? - News

Guest Author • Aug 03, 2021 •

• gaming,
• Learning,
• New Zealand stories,
• video games

Simon McCallum, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Edward Schofield, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Stephen Dobson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington   One of the constant challenges in education is keeping the learner engaged, motivated and connected in a world increasingly filled with distractions. Social media, streaming TV and … Read More

Choosing your major - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 19, 2013 •

• economics,
• gaming,
• New Zealand

Choose a double Econ/Psych major under the B.A. or B.Sc. schedules, or a Psych major with an econ minor, add in some courses in marketing after finding the ones that have some rigour. Go heavy on stats where you can. And then you can do this. As a Mar... Read More

Brain Games - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Mar 14, 2013 •

• crowdsourcing,
• gaming,
• science

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has just released an app (available free for both Apple and Android devices) to collect information on brain functions. It is crowdsourcing in the form of a game – The Great Brain Experiment. The researchers behind it are interested in four questions: “How good is your memory?”,“How impulsive … Read More

Gaming the system - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Mar 18, 2012 •

• Communities,
• Decision making,
• gaming,
• politics

In an earlier post I noted the emergence of game playing to solve real world problems. As you may expect, Silicon Valley is establishing companies to do this. One is Innovation Games. They are already working with some large multinational companies to help improve strategy and determine which products to focus on, as well as using … Read More

Spongelab: game based learning - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 15, 2011 •

• biology,
• education,
• gaming,
• Spongelab

I awoke this morning to a rather epic amount of win. Included in this was an email from Spongelab asking if I’d like to register with them.  I did, and I have. For those of you not suffering from attention issues (i.e. who didn’t immediately click on the hyperlink and will never read the rest of this post), … Read More

A Better World Through Video Games - Skepticon

Darcy Cowan • Jun 15, 2011 •

• behaviour,
• gaming,
• prosocial behaviour,
• Psychological,
• Psychology,
• Sciblogs,
• Social Sciences,
• video games

Over the last few years evidence has been mounting that violence in the media and especially interactive media such as video games contributes to aggression displayed by individuals.[1] This ability to influence our behaviour in such a way is concerning and may undermine attempts to build a peaceful society that nevertheless respects a person’s right [...] … Read More