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  • Cows and Cyborgs: On Academic Irony…

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    [Cross Posted from Culture Digitally] I’ve clicked a cow. Twice. One Kotaku article and a game designer’s reflections on that article got me to thinking about Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker, again. I first clicked a cow when I added Cow Clicker as a Facebook application. I’m sure Ian could even tell me the day that…

  • The Brewing Storm Between Games and Education

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    [This post is cross-posted from over at the Culture Digitally site.] This one has been brewing for a while. Perhaps, as Stephen Totilo notes, ever since Raph Koster voiced his concerns back in 2006. I believe that there is a storm coming between “game people” and educators, precisely at a moment when money is flooding into these realms. So,…