‘Students’ Archives
New ‘gamification’ school opens for kids in the classroom
GameDesk, a nonprofit organization that develops game-based learning initiatives, has now begun running their own classroom. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GameDesk has started a school in Los Angeles that focuses on gamification of the classroom – [Read More]
Smartphones and eReaders replace pencils and paper says Kansas State University expert
The use of technology in the classroom is growing beyond computers to improve student learning, according to a Kansas State University education technology expert. “Today it is very common that elementary school classrooms are equipped with SMART boards, which are [Read More]
Science magazine prize goes to virtual world where undergrads explore DNA
Computer simulation links genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology and evolution When Brian White was a child, his kindergarten teacher wrote in his student record that he would only talk to the other children if the topic was science. Throughout his childhood, [Read More]
UC launches virtual online suicide prevention service
In the fall, about 70 universities nationwide will have the service, including all 10 University of California undergraduate campuses. It is designed to bridge conversation between students who need help and those equipped to provide it. Created by the New York City-based [Read More]
MIT students develop cheap glasses-free 3D
A new method to project 3D images has been worked up by a research group at MIT. This is the Media Lab Camera Culture Group who has worked out a cheaper method by stacking many LCD panels one top of the other. Each of the panel displays a slightly different perspective of [Read More]
Virtual campus – the new look of higher education
#Virtual patients now allow medical students at the University of New South Wales (#UNSW) to develop diagnostic and clinical skills through online scenarios. They can learn from their mistakes with no adverse consequences for real life patients and without the need to be at [Read More]
Surgeons trained in virtual world environments perform better when they operate on real patients
New research has shown that surgical residents who received structured training in a simulated environment perform significantly better when they start operating on patients. The results of the study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital were so convincing that the [Read More]
University of Minnesota exploring games for nurse training
#UniversityofMinnesota exploring #games for #nursetraining After years of brutalizing virtual monsters, soldiers and zombies, gamers can finally begin to make amends — at least the nurses. The University of Minnesota School of Nursing is helping to develop several [Read More]
Virtual world Omosa takes kids on a virtual field trip
ABSTRACT We have developed the virtual world of Omosa in which school students can learn what scientists do by doing it themselves. In Omosa students are able to observe, collect data and interact with a number of intelligent virtual human and animal agents. [Read More]
A virtual world graduation at University of Washington
There are advantages to attending a virtual world graduation. Participants are mentally engaged, immersed, interacting with media instead of simply sitting and waiting. My machinima from the University of Washington Certificate in Virtual Worlds Graduation of the Class of [Read More]
