4/15 Presentations

Katie S.~ Topic is a proposal to bridge knowledge and access divide in low income schools. I think you hit all the major points in your proposal. You were very professional in providing a step by step strategy of informing the entire community first, then utilizing tools available such as the tech classes available online for teachers. Before and after charts are a way to provide proof to your findings, as well.

Beau Y.~ Topic is...technology feeds off of the gaming community. Your examples were great in that you compared the military video with traditional joystick and monitor gaming. They are both using the same type of tools, but ones for work and ones for play. I liked your point that the same developers for games probably developed the program to operate the Da vinci machines for doctors(creepy by the way).

James C.~ Topic is...gaming and how it influences a new type of learning in the brain. This is the topic I took away from the presentation. I like your example of mental maps, and how its starts out being 2-D but once you learn the game your mind creates a 3-D map. Your on to something with this example.

Hans W.~ Topic is..social bridging: bridging the chasm. I like your idea and what I took away from it is...virtual communities help teach people whom may have limited knowledge and/or access to the Internet, some of the fundamental tools that are needed to operate, communicate, and gather information on the web.

Spencer T.~ Topic is..do games generate better soldiers? I liked your example of how games appear so realistic that they entice people to join the military, and how games represent a false image of actual combat. Games can't replicate the RL war experience because like you said the use of all your senses and adrenaline is not present. Good topic.