Åsa Willysson
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Social work. Välkomna till SolarVenti. Dator, media och webb: Vem styr informationsflödet? Matte-träd. Just for fun. Foto. Genealogy. Kerstinbjorklund. English. Pearltrees videos. Help. SoundCloud - Your Sound, At The Heart. ONO - Give Me Something (Roberto Rodriguez Extended Vocal Mix) by YokoOno. Learning science through gaming. This month, thousands of middle-school students are going online to play an interactive video game.
That might not sound surprising, by itself. But in this case, the game is a special science-mystery project, “Vanished,” created by MIT researchers on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, as a novel experiment in alternative science education. “Vanished” is a two-month-long game, which debuted the week of April 4 and stems from an initial scenario revealed in recent video messages on the site. The premise is that people living in the future have contacted us in the present, to answer a question: What event occurred between our time and theirs that led to the loss of civilization’s historical records? Students must decode clues in hidden messages, and in response find and provide information about Earth’s current condition, such as temperature and species data, to help people in the future deduce what wound up happening.