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Video Games Show Potential In Improving Key Aspects Of Memory In Older Adults

Video Games Show Potential In Improving Key Aspects Of Memory In Older Adults

Being exposed to an environment filled with novel stimuli can benefit cognition, including memory. Studies have shown that rodents placed in enriched environments, compared to sparse environments, experience increased generation of nerve cells in brain regions that are critical for memory encoding and retrieval. The good news is that novel environments can be delivered, virtually, to the homebound, according to NIA-supported researchers who recently discovered that video games may be used to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

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How Gamification Can Be A New Mode Of Teaching?

How Gamification Can Be A New Mode Of Teaching?

Games improve memorizing ability as you have to go through similar stages and pattern in order to achieve higher levels. Another benefit of game based learning is that it helps in developing your strategic thinking and enhances problem solving as you have to think few steps ahead before carrying out a task. For better retention and smart understanding games can help you in revision of chapters as you have to apply similar logics and tricks while playing inside a game.

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Mind MuZero AI can master games without knowing the rules

Mind MuZero AI can master games without knowing the rules

The most powerful AIs today still rely on having certain known rules, like rules for a game of chess or Go. Human learning is often messy in inferential, learning the rules of life as we go. DeepMind has long been trying to create such AIs using games as their environment and test suite. Google's sister company focusing on AI research has just revealed its latest achievement in MuZero, an AI that can master a game without learning the rules beforehand.

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Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators

Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators

Want to design a tabletop RPG? These open-source game systems are flexible enough to fit many different concepts and ideas for aspiring game devs. Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons are cool, but building a new tabletop RPG is even cooler.

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Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools

Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools

A growing education program at West Chester University of Pennsylvania saw treasure in this trash, turning bottle caps into hands-on and play-based learning for children. Cap Creations started as a local project to get affordable, sustainable learning tools into the hands of children.

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Google Develops An AI That Can Learn Both Chess And Pac-Man

Google Develops An AI That Can Learn Both Chess And Pac-Man

An algorithm could always have perfect knowledge of the state of the game and know every possible move that both it and its opponent could make. The new system, which DeepMind is calling MuZero, is based in part on DeepMind's work with the AlphaZero AI, which taught itself to master rule-based games like chess and Go. But MuZero also adds a new twist that makes it substantially more flexible.

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Life Hacks To Maximize Your Time For Gaming

Life Hacks To Maximize Your Time For Gaming

If you’re serious about gaming, it can be frustrating when you don’t have enough time to really indulge your passion. Jobs, studying, family, and friends all need balancing alongside your gaming time. While we’re not suggesting you neglect any of these, there are a lot of ways you can maximize your time so that spend more time gaming.

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Making A Game Plan Work

Making A Game Plan Work

It is the deployment of digital game rules in other areas of life, such as work or education. Instead, they focus on the aim of the game itself and forget the reason the game was introduced in the classroom.

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Gamification - The K-12 Educational Technology Handbook

Gamification - The K-12 Educational Technology Handbook

A gamified pedagogical approach can help students develop their autonomy as learners and customize their educational experience in ways that are conducive to their academic success.

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Learning through gaming

Learning through gaming

"We were looking for outlets to engage them outside of academics." How it works Esports is a perfect vehicle for learning important 21st century skills, because many of the attributes that students will need in the workforce correlate with success in gaming, says Dane Berman, director of business development for WeThink.

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How service gamification is part of fintech

How service gamification is part of fintech

Why introduce gamification into business, manufacturing? The need for new methods of motivation has arisen because the old incentive schemes have ceased to work. Gamification aims to replace workflows, for game goals.

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Gamification isn’t all fun and games. It’s serious business

Gamification isn’t all fun and games. It’s serious business

In a revised and updated edition of "For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact," authors Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School, and Dan Hunter of Queensland University of Technology argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change one's business, and the way people learn or teach.

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Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality

Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality

In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, a down-on-his-luck family man named Charles Darrow invented a game to entertain his friends and loved ones, using an oilcloth as a playing surface.

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8 Reasons Why Educational Video Games For Kids Can Offer Cognitive Benefits

8 Reasons Why Educational Video Games For Kids Can Offer Cognitive Benefits

Many of them do not realise that these educational video games can offer several benefits to children, including creativity, better concentration, enhanced memory, teamwork capability and much more. If you aren't still sure of the benefits of educational video games for your kids, here are the top 8 reasons to use them for better cognitive development in children-.

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New Albany-Based Love Gaming Brings 'Next Level' Tech To Education, Workforce Training

New Albany-Based Love Gaming Brings 'Next Level' Tech To Education, Workforce Training

Nathan Love directed the excavator to and fro after removing a load of soil while carefully following the safety precautions that are so important when it comes to construction and heavy machinery. "This will essentially allow kids to get hands-on training time without actually having to be on the machine," said Love, founder of the New Albany startup Love Gaming, LLC. The name of the business isn't misleading.

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Public Opening Speakers at the Games-Based Learning Virtual Conference

Public Opening Speakers at the Games-Based Learning Virtual Conference

The Games-Based Learning Virtual Conference April 16-18, 2021 is the premiere professional event for designers, educators, entrepreneurs, and instructors, using games and games-based learning. In an effort to provide access and equity during these challenging times the following LIVE opening speakers will be FREELY accessible to the public at specific dates and times listed below.

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Why Gamification Could Be The Key To Building Engaging Tech For Good Products

Why Gamification Could Be The Key To Building Engaging Tech For Good Products

For entrepreneurs and technologists looking to solve these problems, digital tech for good products are becoming a big part of the approach. Users expect a product to be intuitive and delightful in use, and one user experience technique to achieve this is gamification. With these gamification guidelines, product designers are able to achieve a change in users' behaviour. Creating motivation for users to use products is a key part of effective gamification.

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Video games change the way you dream

Video games change the way you dream

Those transformations, Gackenbach says, also offer insights into how video gaming might shape an individual's experiences in the waking world. "The major parallel between gaming and dreaming is that, in both instances, you're in an alternate reality, whether a biological construct or a technological one," she says.

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Using Gamification to Increase Engagement During Hybrid Learning

Using Gamification to Increase Engagement During Hybrid Learning

Gamification: Waterford.org defines gamification as "The use of activities and external rewards to encourage motivation in non-game contexts." Gamification strengthens motivation to learn by encouraging active learning, increasing attention span, and reducing student stress.

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Fun and Games and Learning Too

Fun and Games and Learning Too

While we know escape rooms to be an adrenaline-boosting experience to enjoy with friends, they are now being used for learning to engage and energize participants.

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