Shaffer, DW, Hatfield, D, Svarovsky, GN, Nash, P, Nulty, N, Bagley, E, Franke, K, Rupp, AA, Mislevy, R (in submission). Epistemic Network Analysis: A prototype for 21st Century assessment of learning. The International Journal of Learning and Media. …
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Something in the air
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=588Did you ever have one of those days where the whole world seemed to be trying to tell you something? There was a story in the news some months ago about Megan Meier, a teenage girl in Missouri who committed suicide after her neighbor (an adult) pretended to be a teenage boy on MySpace, became friends with Megan, and then sent her hateful, taunting messages. …
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Can I challenge it to a fight?
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=587Stephen Colbert on the internet, pithy as usual: I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? …
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Game theory
http://jasonpriem.com/2008/06/game-theory/, I think open-ended games that move beyond skill practice—”software toys,” to use the great term Will Wright coined to describe his seminal SimCity—do have transformative potential.?? When I see projects like the UW’s epistemic games, I see a lot more going on than just motivation—I see critical thinking that transfers accross the curriculum, combined with real subject-area learning. I like Clark’s thought that games may be a qualitative leap in teaching of a kind that hasn
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Epistemic games
http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2008/06/epistemic-g...Epistemic games
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Shaffer and Gee Talk Video Games and Education
http://thirdeyetherapy.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/shaffer-and-...David Williamson Shaffer,
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David Shaffer: Epistemic Games, the Movie
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/shaffer_epistemic_g...players learn to think like professionals in the knowledge economy. --- As researchers studying new media, it only seemed appropriate to let people know about our work using… well, new media. This short video gives an overview of our work on Urban Science
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cjcoolidge.com
http://cjcoolidge.com/blogI responded to a wonderful article by David Williamson Shaffer on Epistemic Games. The article was titled, The End of the American Century, and is a good description of America’s misunderstanding of the changes that have, and are, taking place in the world economy. My comments, reprinted here, clarify the difference in perspective between
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but enough about you
http://www.juliandibbell.com/newsat UC Irvine, California, where I expected to spend the weekend talking about virtual economies and ludocapitalism but instead embarked on a stimulating tour of every subject you'd imagine coming up with Thomas Malaby, Tom Boellstorff, T. L. Taylor, David Shaffner, Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Pavel Curtis (!), and similarly insightful veterans of online games' long march to academic respectability packed into a room together with bottomless free coffee for two days
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Games, Puzzles, Fun and MORE!
http://interactive-puzzles.comTwo of the most popular things to do on the Web are play games and watch videos. Popjay, a startup backed by Shasta Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, combines the to to create a new form of casual game: video trivia. … The hidden world of adults (Gary Gygax RIP) Playing the game required some sophistication. Just in the process of creating a character I had to know terms (charisma and dexterity) that would have stumped most 11-year-olds. I had to parse categories of ethical alignment,
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Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog
http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblogDean Barnett (no relation) wonders (I think) if Obama is advocating Tom's idea to add more states to the Union. + Catherine Lionheart recommended BFA. + Advisory Bored added this weblog to his blogroll. + Epistemic Games also linked Remember the bit in Esquire about "if your grad degree involved a lot of memorization"? + Rainbow Boys (there's some weird stuff going on over there ;-) embedded the TED talk. + So did
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Off-Shoring and Outsourcing: Problems for Mechanical Model Enterprises
http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/...I responded to a wonderful article by David Williamson Shaffer on Epistemic Games. The article was titled, The End of the American Century, and is a good description of America's misunderstanding of the changes that have, and are, taking place in the world economy. My comments, reprinted here, clarify the difference in perspective between "mechanical" and "organic" business models, and
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Off-Shoring and Outsourcing: Problems for Mechanical Model Enterprises
http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/...I responded to a wonderful article by David Williamson Shaffer on Epistemic Games. The article was titled, The End of the American Century, and is a good description of America's misunderstanding of the changes that have, and are, taking place in the world economy.
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