Comments on: Why You Waste Time Playing Farmville http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/11/why-you-waste-time-playing-farmville/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: A Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do | Surprising Science http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/11/why-you-waste-time-playing-farmville/comment-page-1/#comment-3123 A Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do | Surprising Science Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:06:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=5114#comment-3123 [...] you’re something special? With your ability to speak and spend hours playing Farmville and dominate the entire planet? Well, think again, buddy. The tiny water flea (Daphnia pulex) has [...] [...] you’re something special? With your ability to speak and spend hours playing Farmville and dominate the entire planet? Well, think again, buddy. The tiny water flea (Daphnia pulex) has [...]

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]]> By: Darth Continent http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/11/why-you-waste-time-playing-farmville/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 Darth Continent Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:42:30 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=5114#comment-2596 It would be fascinating to see this implemented in a school setting. If an English teacher, say, decided to create some "choose your own adventure" style of doling out reading assignments, they might pick a particular category or topic of literature, have the student read some key passage, then they gain access to open the "box" leading to the next, making it part game, part education, which associates not just the act of reading but also other brain functionality in moving along the path towards completing the assignment. As long as the students don't start "farming" for and selling quiz answers, this could be useful! It would be fascinating to see this implemented in a school setting. If an English teacher, say, decided to create some “choose your own adventure” style of doling out reading assignments, they might pick a particular category or topic of literature, have the student read some key passage, then they gain access to open the “box” leading to the next, making it part game, part education, which associates not just the act of reading but also other brain functionality in moving along the path towards completing the assignment.

As long as the students don’t start “farming” for and selling quiz answers, this could be useful!

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