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Henry Low '22 discovered a passion for teaching and mentorship as a student at UC Davis. Low is the founder and CEO of GenomiGo, an organization dedicated to harnessing technology to help students engage with STEM. One of his projects is Punnett Farms, an educational game that was inspired by his genetics class at UC Davis.

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Games of future past

In Battle Bird-Bot Blowout, Peri Glick, a senior majoring in film and media studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, deploys vintage 128-color NTSC graphics and a nearly 50-year-old programming language to craft a new game for the iconic Atari 2600 console.

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Developing game-based tech to detect and intervene against stress and anxiety

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A high-tech startup that uses game-based interventions to help users identify stress- and anxiety-related events in real time and receive a personalized intervention has been awarded a federal grant to partially develop its technology through research at Purdue University's College of Engineering.

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Game-based learning Vs Textbook learning: Which is better?

Game-based learning is built on the idea of teaching through repetition, failure, and goal achievement which incorporates game features and concepts into the learning activities themselves. Students learning Economics, for example, can compete in a virtual stock-trading competition; difficult science concepts can also be made easier to understand using several games.

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How Gamification Can Transform Architecture Education

Studies have shown that applying gamification techniques in education allows students to exploit their creativity to imagine real-life situations within a virtual simulation, in addition to increasing learning motivation. One of the new-age proponents of the gamification method is Oneistox - a US- and India-based learning platform for architects, designers, and engineers.

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What Are The Advantages and Disadvantages of Gamification?

The advantages of gamification are therefore undeniable. Gamification first appeared in 2000 after the finding of employees' lack of enthusiasm for taking vocational training. Gamification refers to the use of technologies and features derived from video games to apply them in the professional environment or in learning with the help of game animation company.

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Using gamification to ignite student learning

Gamification in learning has transformed traditional learning into an enhanced learning strategy to tackle concepts that might otherwise be harder to understand. The same gamification principles applied to learning can lead to classes full of students who are intrinsically motivated to learn.

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