Archive for September, 2012

TEDxSMU Wednesday 9.5.2012

Keeping with the game and play theme we watched Stuart Brown’s talk: Play is more fun http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html Stuart Brown’s book- Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul

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TEDxSMU Wednesday 8.29.2012

This week we watched Jane McGonigal’s talk: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life.html Books related to the talk: What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by [...]

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