If The Sims is 25, how old does that make me..?

by tjuthompsonGamification, Learning & TeachingPosted on No Comments

This post isn’t about universities. Although I do come onto them at the end. And it’s not about teaching and learning. Although we will also talk about teaching and learning by the end too. Really this post is about playing video games. You may have seen that the wonderful game The Sims is 25 years …

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Replica worlds – the education benefits of bloody violence in the grimy streets of physical and virtual reconstructions of the past

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Let’s face it, children are idiots. They whine a lot and rarely know what’s good for them. For example, some of them don’t even realise that a trip to a museum is not a chore. It’s fun! Who doesn’t want to learn things?! Idiots, that’s who… Anyway, it was just this attitude that we were …

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