More news on educational games - and conferences

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this:

Amazon.com has published a list of Bestsellers in Video Games for 2009.

Jamie Madigan published an interesting article on her blog, “Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft”,  about psychological effects of games, using World of Warcraft as an example. Her whole blog is an attempt to [...]

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Anderson, C. (2007) ‘The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete’ Wired Magazine, 16:07

An article that argues that given large enough qualntities of data, correlational statistics and data-driven algorithms such as those used by Google can discover new knowledge, superceding the ‘traditional’ scientific model of thinking – intriguing, but [...]