With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved ...
Mathematics
Feb 28, 2024
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A team of researchers is encouraging us to swap textbooks for games, as they drive the application of games in learning, engagement and research.
Education
Feb 16, 2024
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Lego has announced that its braille bricks—already popular among services and schools serving visually impaired children—are now available for public purchase.
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2023
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Beyond pleasure, is there emotional depth to play? Aaron Trammell, a researcher in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, answers this and related questions in a new book he wrote that examines differences ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2023
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One highlight of my Grade 3 life was dying from dysentery at the hands of a video game. I was ahead on schoolwork, and allowed to use the classroom computer to pioneer a family across America in the game The Oregon Trail.
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2023
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Computer games are an effective way to teach ecological issues and build pro-environment policy support, according to published research by an interdisciplinary group of Penn State scholars.
Environment
Oct 12, 2022
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If elementary school children are accustomed to many regional and foreign accents because they hear them frequently in their linguistic environment, then it is easier for them to learn new words from other children who speak ...
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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For several years, colleges in the hunt for students have transformed campus spaces into esports venues where young video gamers immersed in Dota 2, Fortnite or Arena of Valor could compete at the club and varsity level.
Education
Nov 3, 2021
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In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
Education
Sep 3, 2021
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If you ask your teens to do their homework they'll find a thousand other things to do. But put them in front of a video game, and they'll focus on it for hours. How exactly do game designers create this kind of engagement? ...
Education
May 31, 2021
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