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11/18/10
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Sarah Jackson
Invent It: Knight News Challenge May Fund Your Media Innovation
The Knight News Challenge contest awards up to $5 million dollars annually to fund media innovations that use digital open-source technologies to distribute public interest news. This year’s applications are due Dec. 1.11/16/10
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Ben W.
Aeon Quest: Artist Scott Comstock on “Playing the Lesson”
Spotlight talks with “paint -to-pixels” artist Scott Comstock about Aeon Quest: Abduction, a new level he created for the popular video game “LittleBigPlanet” to help teach science and mathematical concepts.11/09/10
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Ben W.
A Day in the Life of a Computer: Gemma McLean on Introducing Students to Computer Science Through Gaming
Spotlight talks with UK game designer Gemma McLean about creating a new level for the popular video game “LittleBigPlanet” that introduces middle school and high school students to key computer science concepts.11/01/10
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Jeane Q.
LittleBig Chemistry Lab: Mark Matthews on Mixing Chemistry With Gaming
As a chemistry instructor at Durham Technical Community College and a gamer in his spare time, Mark Matthews is uniquely positioned to help bring the world of chemistry into the online gaming space, where many of his students spend a great deal of their time.10/26/10
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Jeane Q.
Creatures Classified!: Mathew Powers on Turning Students into Intergalactic Speciologists in Spore
As a university lecturer, Mathew Powers says he has never seen anything like his students’ energy for making and playing video games.10/21/10
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Sarah Jackson
Sandra Day O’Connor Supports Teaching Civic Engagement Through Gaming
We enjoyed this interview with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the PBS News Hour last week. O’Connor, who has become a gaming advocate since leaving the bench, was touting iCivics, a web-based project that uses game play to teach middle school students about civic engagement.10/19/10
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Ben W.
“I Built This and It’s Working”: In Discovery Pier Students Learn Physics by Designing Their Own Roller Coasters
Spotlight talks with game designer Josh Hughes about the new adventure level he created for the popular video game “LittleBigPlanet.” In Discovery Pier, students learn physics and engineering by designing their own amusement park rides.10/18/10
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Sarah Jackson
Obama Congratulates Young Game Designers at the White House
Winners of the Game Changers Kids Competition were announced today at the White House Science Fair. President Obama personally congratulated 13-year-old Jack Hanson of New Mexico, who won the competition for the new adventure he created for the popular science video game “Spore.”10/18/10
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Sarah Jackson
Design Your Own STEM Video Game
The National STEM Video Game Challenge we blogged about last month is now accepting applications for its developer prize.10/11/10
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Jeane Q.
“Heading Home to Play”: Mission: Evolution Helps Students Take Science Home
A high school biology teacher in Blacksburg, Va., talks with Spotlight about the new video game she designed to help her students analyze evolutionary science and how gaming can expand learning beyond the classroom.10/07/10
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Sarah Jackson
Games and Learning Scholars Experiment with Real Time Research
ETC Press this week announced the publication of “Real Time Research: Improvisational Game Scholarship,” a new book based on a series of workshops conducted by the authors—Seann Dikkers, Eric Zimmerman, Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler—as they pursued a new kind of interdisciplinary game experimentation.10/05/10
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Ben W.
Students Solve Math Mysteries in Sackboys and the Mysterious Proof
Spotlight talks with Kan Yang Li about games-based learning and the new math-related adventure level he created for the popular video game “LittleBigPlanet.”10/01/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Kids & Digital Reading; First Virtual E-Book Summit; James Gee Fields Questions on Gaming
Plus: New NPR blog on technology and education, and what teenage rite of passage is no longer as essential as it used to be?9/29/10
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Sarah Jackson
Want to Teach STEM Skills and Game Design? Sign Up to Play Gamestar Mechanic
Educators looking to combine video gaming with learning may be interested in this week’s release of Gamestar Mechanic, a new game-based learning platform that promotes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts while teaching the principles of game design.9/21/10
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Sarah Jackson
