Educational uses for Rev -- profs talk to gamers?

[Erik Hansen]

--- Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
wrote:

> Unfortunately, most of what I see from
> academics who mess around with 
> technology in teaching, amounts to simplistic
> web-based animations.  

perhaps because they don't see computers as
more than a gimmicky folder file?

when i suggested to a biologist that her plant
growth
website could do even more with animation
showing incremental progress, the reaction was
a defensive "oh yes, and i could add some waving
arms!" no, she was not a programmer.

a math prof felt that animating the progress of
a mathematical function was a cop-out, not real
thought. 

a class in neural networking i once took
had  step-wise representation of a function's
progress in a Variable Watcher and in a graph.
i never would have gotten the idea from the
prose.

many "get" the concept of a sine wave only
after seeing a visual representation.

maybe the profs should talk to the game writers?

Erik Hansen

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org


		
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