In Scientia Veritas

This article is interesting. Constance Steinkuehler, game academic at the University of Wisconsin, thinks that computer games induce their players to scientific thinking. She spends many hours a day playing online games like Lineage and World of Warcraft as a part of a study on learning environments. She and her colleages, after examining 1,984 posts in 85 threads in a discussion board for players of World of Warcraft, have fount out that in order to defeat the bosses the gamers engage in discussions that have everything in common with the scientific method.

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