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Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Faculty, administrators, and tuition-paying parents have been asking this question for nearly two centuries. And the answer is always more or less the same: students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play (fraternities, sports, beer pong, World of Warcraft, social media) that they neglect academics. In Minds on Fire, Mark Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2014Harvard University Press · 387 pages · 9780674735354
Social aspectsFantasy gamesHigher EducationEffect of technological innovations onRole playingEducation, higher, social aspectsSimulation games in educationSimulation games