My Professor who teaches me financial management is funs of ‘Call of Duty’ series. ‘Call of Duty’ is a famous FPS game. I am wonder that why professional person will like playing game. Not only FM professor, but also my secondary school math teacher is in fever of game. One reasonable answer is playing game for relaxing. It is true but I want to explain this situation in a new view. In following, I will talk about Bloom’s Taxonomy of cognitive domain and SimCity.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education. The taxonomy was first presented in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom. I prefer the revision to original one. The Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is easier to understand.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education. The taxonomy was first presented in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom. I prefer the revision to original one. The Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is easier to understand.
Mainly, the categories can divide to 2 parts.
The low level: Remember, Understand, Apply
The high level: Analyze, Evaluate, Create
The most important is keeping in a high level cognitive. In this stage, human can continue create new knowledge or add value to the original knowledge. It is meaningful to human being evolution. If we want a better result or performance, we need to keep in high level.
SimCity
SimCity is a city-building simulation game, fist released in 1989. The latest vision is SimCity Societies. It is a well-known game in PC. Honestly, I don’t like this game; it takes long-long-long time to play. However, this game is perfect match what I want to explain.
In the first time playing, the game will provide you a tutorial mission. In the mission, you can learn the basic rule of how to build up a city step by step. Road, house, police station, fire bureau, power-station and a lot of elements will adopt as a city plan. This mission match the low level: you remember the rule, understand the rule, and use it try to build your own city.
After the tutorial mission, it changes to formal mission. The formal mission will set a goal for you to achieve like 100,000,000 populations, but no more hints to you. You need to do it by yourself. During DIY, you will analyze the map for information, evaluate the location for correction, and create a new city. It matches the high level.
My summary: playing game is good for keeping in a high level cognitive of learning by practice.
More interesting evidences
I often saw elderly person play game in game station. Their performance is cheerful; their reaction even faster than teenagers did. Talking with these elder, you can feel that they are similar to youngster. According to some researches, playing mahjong game 1 hour per day can prevent Alzheimer disease.
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Sims is fun! SimsCity should be a "must have" for everyone!!
ReplyDeleteThe point "creating a new city in Sims matches the high level" could be quite controversial though, because you're just creating your city in the virtual world, not in the real world. The real world is way more complicated, isn't it?
I do not know / dislike on-line game....as I think people waste lots of time for doing something virtually (not value added). Rethink your game (checking on the internet), ebook providers could consider ONE game/ exercises that helps poeple to experience all levels in BLOOMS or Revised BLOOMS accordingly. If possible, they could input some real factors (e.g., age, emotions and social network) --> closing the gap between pc world and real world.
ReplyDeleteCall of duty is fun, but the story is too short...sad...Sims is kind of fun too, but then i don't really think simscity is that great, even though they are both from EA games. The company itself maybe a good thing to study? EA took over so many game companies and their games but the new games under the old names turns out to be in real bad quality (graphics, content, gaming, loads of bugs etc.) e.g. C&C4 = epic fail :) I wonder where did they get their "cognition" from.
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