World of Warcraft makes you a better scientist
chatting about computer games like World of Warcraft can improve your ability as a scientist, say (gaming-mad) scientists.
Boffins from
University of Wisconsin (probably trying to explain why they were on WoW forums all day) used codes based on benchmarks for scientific literacy, to analyze online discussions about World of Warcraft.
They looked at a random sample of nearly 2,000 discussion posts to see what types of conversations took place, such as social bantering versus problem-solving, that classified as scientific reasoning.
It was concluded that the forum and game-based learning could supplement textbooks and science labs in fostering scientific thinking and problem-solving ability.
“These forums illustrate how sophisticated intellectual practices to improve game play mimic actual scientific reasoning,” said researcher Sean Duncan.
“Gamers are openly discussing their strategies and thinking, like how to gain and use wow gold creating an environment in which informal scientific reasoning practices are being learned by playing these online video games.”
The codes used in the research analyzed, reasoning using systems and models, understanding feedback, predicting and testing and using math to investigate a problem.
The majority of participants (86 percent) were found to have shared their knowledge to solve problems and more than half the participants (58 percent) used systematic and evaluative processes indicative of scientific reasoning.
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