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Where should teachers interested in structuring a class as a game start?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by David Carlton Jan 25, 2010.

James Paul Gee on games and learning
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Roger Travis Jan 11, 2010.

 

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Jeremy Teitelbaum left a comment for David Carlton
"We probably did meet in the math business; looks like both of us have moved on (more or less) though I still do consider myself a mathematician."
Apr 14, 2010
David Carlton left a comment for Jeremy Teitelbaum
"Good to see you here! I was thinking your name sounded familiar, and looking around, I must have read some papers of yours in my previous life as a mathematician..."
Apr 14, 2010
David Carlton replied to David Carlton's discussion Where should teachers interested in structuring a class as a game start?
"Oh, cool! Quest2Learn seems interesting, and I'll certainly point local teachers at your course when you launch it."
Jan 25, 2010
Roger Travis replied to David Carlton's discussion Where should teachers interested in structuring a class as a game start?
"There's Quest2Learn, now, which is working on similar lines, and there's the work of Jim Gee. But you're right that we need to start working on a ground-up approach, and I'm moving in that direction on two fronts--with Corvus,…"
Jan 23, 2010
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Where should teachers interested in structuring a class as a game start?

I was thinking that some of the teachers (and some of the parents - it's a parent-participation school) in the school that my daughter attends might be interested in some of Roger's experiments.  So I was planning to I'd point them at Roger's Operation KTHMA posts.But, now that I think about it, I'm not sure how accessible those posts are - somebody who isn't already a gamer might have a hard time turning those…See More
Jan 23, 2010
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David Carlton commented on David Carlton's blog post Burnout Paradise
"I'd vote for no - for one thing, it would limit the play to people who are willing to simultaneously set up XBL and Skype, and, for another thing, I'm not convinced the result would be as good with a multiplayer game where there's a…"
Jan 17, 2010
Roger Travis commented on David Carlton's blog post Burnout Paradise
"Do we want to think about trying to record the chat? Despite my disconnects, Skype did work pretty well, and we got a usable recording out of it."
Jan 17, 2010
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Burnout Paradise

I'm hosting our weekly game session this week (Thursday, 1/21), and I've chosen Burnout Paradise as our game. It's a game that took me a while to warm to: it seemed like a pleasant enough racing game, with a particularly friendly online mode, but its open-world design occasionally frustrated me, because I would lose a race, end up in the middle of nowhere, and have a long drive to get to where I could repeat the race or a medium drive to get to someplace else I found interesting.It wasn't until…See More
Jan 17, 2010
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Burnout Paradise

I'm hosting our weekly game session this week (Thursday, 1/21), and I've chosen Burnout Paradise as our game. It's a game that took me a while to warm to: it seemed like a pleasant enough racing game, with a particularly friendly online mode, but its open-world design occasionally frustrated me, because I would lose a race, end up in the middle of nowhere, and have a long drive to get to where I could repeat the race or a medium drive to get to someplace else I found… Continue

Posted on January 17, 2010 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

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At 10:47am on April 14, 2010, Jeremy Teitelbaum said…
We probably did meet in the math business; looks like both of us have moved on (more or less) though I still do consider myself a mathematician.

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