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How can the incentives and structures of games (e.g., video games) be used to reshape teaching & learning?
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Global Weather Protection Agency
Published: 07/10/11
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Problem of practice
The most difficult science topics I teach are those that happen on a very large or small scale or very fast or slow rate, or that are too dangerous or difficult to investigate in my classroom. Weather is a great example. We make barometers, anemometers, & other weather instruments, and use them and store-bought equipment to measure atmospheric conditions. But these aren't the most precise instruments, and a few weeks' of weather data won't always reveal much about weather as a system.
Solution
Why not create a game to mash-up classroom & computer, allowing students to explore weather systems using real data, hands-on experiments, & simulations, within an exciting narrative context? Welcome to the Global Weather Protection Agency...
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Your project sounds awesome! I love the gaming aspect of it all. It's almost like a movie trailer.
Love it to the point that I
Love it to the point that I definitely want to meet you. Especially, but not only, the exreme use of scale in Prezi. I can only imagine the absurd abuses of this effect. Words within the dots of apostrophes within the dots of apostrophes, ad infinitum. Thank goodness I only have a comment box to respond to you. But seriously, can't wait to talk pedagogy with you.
Thanks!
Thanks! I am so excited about this opportunity and hopeful that it might happen.
Looking forward to meeting you, too... I was thinking about attending one of the Blender events this summer, but I have a very, very short summer this year so I'm also trying to avoid over-committing. Also not sure which one to go to... we use Google apps a ton in my school, so maybe one with the Google people... Any recommendations?
Playing around with Prezi while working on this, I watched a bunch of their sample ones and got some ideas there about how to use Prezi to go far, far beyond PowerPoint. The zooming idea came from that process, seeing how people tucked away details inside big ideas in their Prezis. I was starting to hit zooming walls within Prezi, though, so you can't zoom in indefinitely! I'm excited to try out this tool with my students in the fall.