Tag: Life Science Students

Jun 30

Molting Roach!

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
June 30, 2013

Okay I’m not a big fan of cockroaches. I grew up in Miami, FL and we had those big, flying cockroaches with the antennae that looked like human hair. My mother always screamed when she saw one so early on I picked up that fear. To this day when I see a black blur out …

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Jun 11

Alternate Reality Game

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Grades & HW, Science
June 11, 2012

This past Thursday Nicholas Provenzano hosted a Twitter chat at #NerdyChat on the topic of Gamification (see transcript here). Gamification is the idea of using the best of video gaming in the classroom. Why? Watch a kid play a video game. Video games hook the player and motivate the player to persevere through failure and …