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Fun-with-words.com is dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language: wordplay. Playing with words and language is both entertaining and educational. Here you can have plenty of fun with words with over 500 pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts.
Addictionary is a unique dictionary that tracks how our language evolves. This collection of words features the newest "non-words" by themes and relative popularity.
East of the Web contains a HUGE collection of online word games for all ages. The teacher section allows you to customize word games for your students. In addition, it is building a community of users to develop hypertexts & interactive works that deliver characters, locations and narratives in a non-linear way.
Investors at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. ousted five of the six board members up for re-election Thursday, including the chief executive, who was booted from the boardroom and the executive suite. Take-Two publishes GrandTheft Auto and Bully, among other video games and has been the target of criticism regarding these two games and some of the practices of the company.
In “Grand Theft Auto,†players shoot pedestrians and police with reckless abandon. Another hit is “Bully,†about a slingshot-wielding 15-year-old at Bullworth Academy boarding school, whose motto is “Canis Canem Edit,†Latin for “dog eat dog.†Read on...
This development is an interesting addendum to the cyberbullying issue that has been brewing for the last few months. Companies that publish violent and abusive games, market them to teens and tweens, and then take no responsibility for the results, may begin to find themselves in an advertising ethernet. Several groups have been mobilized as an answer to increasing virtual violence. And if the result of the latest Harris Poll is correct, 13 hours per week is the average amount of time that an 8-12 year old plays video games. If companies do not change their policies regarding violence and pornography, eventually they will lose that market as more adults are disgusted and frustrated with the products they produce. Download the report....
Beck and Wade report in "Got Game" a Harvard Business School Press book from 2002 "that 34 years is the cutoff for people who have grown up playing video games." What it means is that anyone who graduated from high school earlier than 1991 has a natural inclination to be wary when insisting that gaming is one good way to learn. I graduated in 1972, what does it say about me?
What has actually happened is that many recognize various twenty-first century skills that seem ready-made for video games as a learning tool:
- Critical Thinking/Problem-Solving
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Leadership
- Creativity/Innovation
- Ethics/Social Responsibility
What we have to do as educators is determine how to tap into this gaming experience and harness it for learning. One company, SimVentive, is creating simulations without programming. Another company, TopCoder runs competitions for high school student developers. Some schools are adding game design curriculum to their course offerings. Read on...
At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students can major in interactive game design. The school's motivation is that "If you educate students to work at the highest possible standard, they will have an excellent 21st century education no matter what they do with it." Continue...
How do members of congress rank against each other? What are controversial legislative decisions? Like Fantasy Football, Fantasy Congress gives users the power to draft and manage a team created from the members of the U.S. Congress.
We The Creators of this site, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish Fantasy Congress for the United States of America.
In this game, we give you the power to draft and manage a team of members from the U.S. Congress. Enjoy our gift to you, o great nation: the power to play politics!â„¢
Play on....
