So, I wanna get a bit more serious than usual for a second here. There have been a number of posts about games and education floating around in my head and in various states of completion digitally for a while now. Perhaps it’s time they come to light. Rather than calling this a brain dump [...]
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Episode 12: We’re Live and Damned Near Drunk
June 23rd, 2011 
dr. b. Episode 12: We’re Damn Near Drunk (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode we record live and finish up interesting discussions on sex, games, and toys in general. Definitely not one to be missed! Links of Note: Gamified Porn Homies Dolls Spa Science
What Video Game Designers Have to Teach Us About Education (Or “A Rip-Off of My Cs Presentation)
April 17th, 2011 dr. b. Below is an edited and (hopefully contextualized) version of the talk that I did at CCCC 2011 in Atlanta, GA. I have added some images and video but not the entire PowerPoint presentation from the talk. Ian Bogost defines procedural rhetoric as “a technique for making arguments with computational systems and for unpacking computational arguments [...]
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Tags: Education, games and learning, Gamification 
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Episode 7: Gamification; It’s More than Just Playing Games
April 15th, 2011 dr. b. Episode 7 is here! Gamification; It’s More than Just Playing Games (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about gamification and education and clear up some of the mis-conceptions. dr. b. rants a bit and drops an f-bomb, Alex drinks like a grown up, and Sarah [...]
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Gaming the System in a System of Gaming: The Inherent Nature of Games in Pedagogy (aka, my CCCCs presentation)
April 10th, 2011 alexlayne The reserve army of the bored zombie the earth, fiddling with their cell phones, checking their watches. Boredom is the meter of history. –McKenzie Wark I love games. My friends love games. My students love games. We are a society in love with games: game-shows, reality games, board games, online games, video games, computer games, [...]
Posted in Games and Education, Uncategorized Tags: cccc, Education, games, games and learning, Gamification, gaming the system 2 Comments »Hardcore Farmer? Your Mama is a Gamer!
March 16th, 2011 dr. b. Episode 5: Hardcore Farming!: Your Mama is a Gamer(“Save As” to download) The fifth episode of the Not Your Mama’s Gamer podcast where we talk about intersectionality and gamers, the “new” hardcore gamer (according to Zynga), and President Obama on gamification. Links of Note: Dead Island Trailer Torchlight (Runic Games) President Obama’s speech on gamified [...]
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Should Civilization 5 be used for Education?
January 16th, 2011 alexlayne A discussion of why I love Civ 5, why I think it can be used how to study the gamification of history and education, as well as some reflections on the representations of different cultures.
