{"id":373,"date":"2011-10-30T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T19:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-10-30T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T20:11:04","slug":"intelligent-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up the theme of gaming, Marian Petre found teenagers using readily available Internet resources to engage in playful navigation and reuse of the information space. Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pseudo-Friend \u2013 create a person in Facebook and see how many friends they can attract<\/li>\n<li>Brimstone Rhetoric \u2013 justify any position of argument using biblical quotes<\/li>\n<li>Degrees of Separation \u2013 How many links it takes to get from one concept or another<\/li>\n<li>Way Finding \u2013 Navigate to a designated destination using only the most-zoomed view on Google Maps<\/li>\n<li>Tower of Babel \u2013 Use online translators in order to hold conversations in a language you don&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Such games are creative inventive or imaginative. They require, or help develop critical thinking, problem solving or some computational nous. They tend to be mischievous, mildly rebellious or satirical.<\/p>\n<p>Can we bring mischief to the aid of education? Part of intelligent play is that it crossed boundaries and breaks a few rules. Is there a way to bring this into education and still make it compelling?<\/p>\n<p>Petre, M. (2011) Intelligent games. <em>ACM Inroads<\/em>, (ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), 2 (2).\u00a0 ISSN 2153-2184.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up the theme of gaming, Marian Petre found teenagers using readily available Internet resources to engage in playful navigation and reuse of the information space. Examples: Pseudo-Friend \u2013 create a person in Facebook and see how many friends they can attract Brimstone Rhetoric \u2013 justify any position of argument using biblical quotes Degrees of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,45],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-games-and-gaming","tag-games-and-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}