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438 - Your Comments on Gaming for Learning
March 30, 2007
Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - March 30, 2007.
#438 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
53,418 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Host of LMS 2007 - April 12 & 13 - Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Afternoon Update - Game Stop - Gaming in Learning Gathering.
Dear TRENDS Readers,
You are an incredible part of the Gaming and Learning conversation we are having here in Toronto. I have received several hundred great emails with questions, thoughts, hopes and concerns about Gaming in Learning. Every 10 minutes, I have been reading one of your emails to the group.
We will post the proceedings' summary on our website in a week. In the meantime, here are a few samples of the conversations here and some of your
emails:
- High interest in Gaming for Learning - driven by both generational changes and shifts in people's acceptance of video/computer games.
- Opportunity to use Gaming for repetition, transfer, social networking, multiple layers of practice and virtualization of business process.
- Need to alter our language about gaming. There is a lack of vocabulary about gaming in learning to help us effectively promote them internally as well as describe our emerging practices.
- Fuzziness about the distinction between Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Worlds - and it is going to get fuzzier.
- Generational attitudes about gaming are quite different. Interesting to see an article in the New York Times about Seniors and Gaming:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/30seni.html?ref=arts
Additional comments came in on the Cost, Technology Hurdles, Regulatory Concerns and Social Issues in Virtual Worlds.
Keep sending your comments and questions to me, as the meeting will continue through tomorrow, including a visit to the First Robotics challenge in Toronto. Send your notes to emasie@masie.com
I really appreciate your comments and participating in this blended model of raising issues. Watch your email for a summary of your comments and the proceedings here at Game Stop. Thanks to John Abele for supporting this important discussion.
Elliott Masie
P.S. Mark Your Calendar - At Learning 2007 we will have two key "events in the event" - "Gaming for Learning" and "Virtual Worlds for Learning".
October 21 to 24 - Orlando, Florida - http://www.masie.com
#438 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
53,418 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Host of LMS 2007 - April 12 & 13 - Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Afternoon Update - Game Stop - Gaming in Learning Gathering.
Dear TRENDS Readers,
You are an incredible part of the Gaming and Learning conversation we are having here in Toronto. I have received several hundred great emails with questions, thoughts, hopes and concerns about Gaming in Learning. Every 10 minutes, I have been reading one of your emails to the group.
We will post the proceedings' summary on our website in a week. In the meantime, here are a few samples of the conversations here and some of your
emails:
- High interest in Gaming for Learning - driven by both generational changes and shifts in people's acceptance of video/computer games.
- Opportunity to use Gaming for repetition, transfer, social networking, multiple layers of practice and virtualization of business process.
- Need to alter our language about gaming. There is a lack of vocabulary about gaming in learning to help us effectively promote them internally as well as describe our emerging practices.
- Fuzziness about the distinction between Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Worlds - and it is going to get fuzzier.
- Generational attitudes about gaming are quite different. Interesting to see an article in the New York Times about Seniors and Gaming:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/30seni.html?ref=arts
Additional comments came in on the Cost, Technology Hurdles, Regulatory Concerns and Social Issues in Virtual Worlds.
Keep sending your comments and questions to me, as the meeting will continue through tomorrow, including a visit to the First Robotics challenge in Toronto. Send your notes to emasie@masie.com
I really appreciate your comments and participating in this blended model of raising issues. Watch your email for a summary of your comments and the proceedings here at Game Stop. Thanks to John Abele for supporting this important discussion.
Elliott Masie
P.S. Mark Your Calendar - At Learning 2007 we will have two key "events in the event" - "Gaming for Learning" and "Virtual Worlds for Learning".
October 21 to 24 - Orlando, Florida - http://www.masie.com
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