Serious Games for Healthcare - BreakAway, Ltd - Award-Winning Developer of Numerous Real-Time Strategy Games and Technologically Advanced Desktop Development Software. This groundbreaking project, developed for the Medical College of Georgia and, funded through a grant by Nobel Biocare, was created to better teach and train dental school students and dental professionals patient assessment and diagnosis protocol and to practice dental implant procedures in a realistic, virtual, 3D, environment. Launch video Client: Medical College of Georgia Objective: Provide a PC, game-based simulation to improve dental student learning outcomes in the area of diagnostics, decision-making and treatment protocols for enhanced patient therapy outcomes and risk management.
Solution: 3D, virtual environment where students guide their avatar and interact with virtual patients to practice the proper decision- making protocol to determine if the patients are physically and mentally prepared for dental implant procedures. Technology: Powered by BreakAway’s Pulse!! Cara Saul (houseygirl) on Pinterest. School of Education professors to offer MOOC on video game learning. Two professors with UW-Madison’s School of Education will be offering a free online course about video games and learning via a new delivery system in higher education known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.
Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are teaming up to teach a course called, “More than a High Score: Video Games and Learning.” This online class will examine research on the kinds of thinking and learning that goes into videogames and gaming culture. It'll also discuss the benefits and drawbacks of digital gameplay, tensions between youth culture and traditional education, and developments that may bridge that divide. Steinkuehler and Squire co-direct the Games+Learning+Society Center within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Steinkuehler is an associate professor of digital media with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, while Squire is a professor in C&I. This course is one of four pilot MOOCs announced by UW-Madison Wednesday.
Man Plays Civilisation II For 10 Years, World Disintegrates into 'Nightmare Of Suffering' (PHOTOS) UPDATE: Reddit users have reported progress in the 'Eternal War' after user uploads Civ II save game... What will the world be like in 2000 years? According to one visionary using a computer simulation, the distant future will be a "hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation", largely uninhabitable, flooded and beset by in-fighting, nuclear war and periodic annihilation. Admittedly this "simulation" isn't anything complex...
In fact it's Civilisation 2, an infamous turn-based strategy game - which one Reddit user revealed on Tuesday he has been playing for more than 10 years. The Civilisation series allows users to make nations, develop new technology and battle for territory and the hearts and minds of computer citizens. The chap in question, named Lycerius, told Reddit that he's been playing the same game of Civ II in fits and spurts for over a decade.
In Lycerius's world, the polar ice caps have melted 20 times due to nuclear wars and all of the big cities have crumbled. Atlantis Remixed :: Educators. Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game. Jeremiah McCall on Using Simulation Games in the History Classroom. Oct 3 2011 (Note: This blog entry is the first part of a six-part series. Read more on using games in the classroom in parts two, three, four, five, and six.) Using simulation games effectively in the classroom poses challenges. The power of such games to offer compelling and unique learning opportunities is very real, however, and well worth the effort. I invite readers to use the guidelines in this series to harness the power of simulation games. I encourage teachers to engage in their own play, experimenting with simulations thoughtfully, taking calculated risks in the classroom, wading into the chaos, and guiding students towards a more meaningful and relevant study of the past.
What is a Simulation Game? Before jumping into the thick of it, let’s deal with two preliminary points: what is a simulation game, and what are the strengths of simulation games for history education? General Hardware Considerations So much for the preliminaries. There are two main types of simulation games. EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes. Wiki.