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Friday, February 25, 2011

Can Games Be Used For Educational Purposes

By Larry B. Perez


OK, now we appear to head into the area of sci-fi. Folks who play video console games and find the awe-inspiring godlike powers they're authorized in virtual space quite addicting, have always walked about away from their a games sort of feeling like those powers actually could one day turn out to be real. And in some little way, they do appear to basically bring us a little closer ( if only a small ) to possessing those powers in truth. Let's commence with what you are able to do on games like EteRNA and Fold-It.

There have been developments in computer video games. And in some small way, they do seem to actually bring us a little closer (if only a little) to possessing those powers in reality.
Let's start with what you are allowed to do on games like EteRNA and Fold-It. These are games for the scientifically-inclined (biologically, to be more precise).

You play with living microbes - germs. It's a Stanford research group which has developed games of this sort - ones with names like Ciliaball, and Biotic Pinball. The purpose of the game naturally is instructional. The scientists who designed these PC video console games hope that folk will start to find out more about how entrancing the arena of microbes are, how complicated and gorgeous normal processes can be.

Who are these games reserved for? To start with, they're intended for folks who wish to find out more about biology. And they also are intended for the scientifically inclined. Budding scientists can simply use these games as a virtual lab to aid them in making tangible experiments.

Budding scientists can easily use these games as a virtual laboratory to help them make actual experiments.
Of course, if you are to play with actual microorganisms, the game can't completely be in the virtual realm. At some point, the game has to leave the computer world and enter the real world. That means you need equipment that you usually don't associate with computer video games - a microscope, a camera and a device that manipulates microscopic organisms (such as the paramecium with electrical charges). There are also games that allow you to add chemicals to the fluid matrix (no, not The Matrix) that the organisms exist in to try to manipulate which way the swim. If you succeed in getting them to swim into your pinball receptacle, you win.




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