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Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills
Environments such as Second Life can both stimulate and educate, experts say
By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor, eSchool News
Online gaming can help students develop many of the skills they'll be required to use upon leaving school, such as critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity, agreed educators who spoke during an April 16 webinar on gaming in education.
Sharnell Jackson, the chief eLearning officer for Chicago Public Schools and the webinar's moderator, noted that gaming and simulations are highly interactive, allow for instant feedback, immerse students in collaborative environments, and allow for rapid decision-making. The webinar was sponsored by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).
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University of Central Florida students freak out when they go tech-free
For one week--five days, really--a class of college students was assigned to unplug and live a tech-free life, reports the Orlando Sentinel. No cell phones. No iPods. No computers, TVs, or video games. It was enough to make a "millennial" weep. What would they do? Read a book, suggested Mary Ann Murdoch, who teaches English composition at the University of Central Florida. "They were mortified at the thought of this," Murdoch said. "It's not just something I'm doing to be trendy or funny or frivolous.
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