Instructional Games
The Wii As a Platform for Learning
Monday, January 28th, 2008By the pure luck of being at the right place at the right time, my family now owns a Wii. Although my past is filled with hours at a computer playing Wolfenstein 3D, playing Doom, and crashing Lear jets using various flight simulators, the Wii is my introduction to game consoles.
My right shoulder is still [...]
Instructional Games to Teach Computers
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007The current issue of Wired magazine contains a story that provides an interesting twist on using games for learning. Luis von Ahn is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Rather than developing instructional games to help people learn, he designs games that are played by people to teach computers.
Computers are great at crunching [...]
