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Positive and Negative numbers through World of Warcraft

Felix Gyllenstig Serrao

Swedish version: https://spellararen.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/rakna-med-positiva-och-negativa-tal-genom-world-of-warcraft/ Many students that I’ve worked with love World of Warcraft. Some of these students have an extremely difficult time to understand school assignments, especially students with neuropsychiatric disabilities, because they are not as fun as the games they play. For … Fortsätt läsa Positive and Negative numbers through World of Warcraft

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What can education learn from video games?

Felix Gyllenstig Serrao

Video games magical concept When playing a game, the risk of dying or failing is always present. When you fail it’s the games way of telling you that you’re playing the game the wrong way and that is what creates a challenge for the player. If the player dies he or she have not found the right approach to solving the game’s obstacles and challenges. What gaming, however, have honed over decades is to find the balance between failure and success. There is a fine line that video games are treading that allows the player to feel just enough challenged by the game so it doesn’t feel too … Fortsätt läsa What can education learn from video games?

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HoloLens – The future through two small windows

Felix Gyllenstig Serrao

At Microsoft’s press conference for this year’s E3, Microsoft showed their new augmented reality headset, their so-called HoloLens. Augmented reality means that you can see digital objects and images through the HoloLens displayed in reality like your living room. You can, for example, by using HoloLens when cooking have the recipe tacked digitally on the kitchen cabinet and a box that displays the TV on the wall that exists in HoloLens digital ”reality”. Why not display a 3D instruction model beside you to help you when you fix your cars motor or fix your computer. What makes the  HoloLens special is that it contains its … Fortsätt läsa HoloLens – The future through two small windows