Games, simulations and virtual worlds

Mooses and research in education and gaming??!!! Kid & sister who survived a moose attack from having played World of Warcraft!!!!

Good stories (anecdotes) don't necessarily make good research

Education is not failing and games are not a remedy!

Virtual rewards - Pavlovian

This pushed as a paradigm for gaming education here

Are games always fun? 'a system of coercion freely entered into'

A lot of the time - all you learn from a game is how to play the game!

Dill & Dill (1998) murder reinforced in vid games Goldstein (2005) no one is actually killed!!! Failure to distinguish with playing a violent game and actual aggression!

If violent games teach aggression - why aren't the researches more violent??!! ;-)

Some of the chat in WoW is more violent than on screeen gore

Given all of this - why do people make similar assumptions about games and learning???!!!

http://nosignificantdifference.org/

Knowledge constructed from what you do!

Pedagogy as agreed structure - red rugs in SL.

Traditional learning design ignores the performed pedagogy

Moving beyond heresay in research

Focus on practice not technology - common lies we tell about technology

Understand where we want to intervene in

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html