{"id":612,"date":"2010-01-25T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:13:16","slug":"creating-computer-games-can-boost-student-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/01\/creating-computer-games-can-boost-student-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Computer Games Can Boost Student Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teaching people how to use off-the-shelf tools to quickly build a computer game might allow anyone to learn new thinking and computing skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nComputer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students&#8217; critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing. They discuss details in the current issue of the <em>International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100121101124.htm\">ScienceDaily<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/01\/25\/0641239\/Researchers-Make-a-Case-For-Learning-Through-Video-Game-Creation\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teaching people how to use off-the-shelf tools to quickly build a computer game might allow anyone to learn new thinking and computing skills.&#8221; Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}