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100 Juegos Tecnológicos - "serious games"

Hola,
en la tarea de recopilar una lista de juegos educativos en tecnología, les comparto estos 100.
Sería muy jalado montar un proyecto educativo con estas herramientas, y por supuesto probarlas con sus estudiantes.
cualquier cosa me avisan.

1 Grodbots, recablea un pequeño robot para que pueda coger el pastel
2 Grow the Robot, haz crecer al robot
3 Incredibots 2, construye robots alucinantes
4 Dynamic Systems, un juego como The Incredible Machine
5 IT Manager III : Fuerzas Invisibles, ¿Quieres ser el director de TI de una empresa?
6 Gears, completa el sistema de engranajes
7 Little Wheel, Robots&Jazz
8 Ships, navega por el mundo con Google Earth
9 Cargo Bridge, saca al ingeniero que llevas dentro
10 BridgeCraft, pon a prueba tu ingenio construyendo puentes
11 Robozzle, programa tu robot
12 Solid Edge Garage, pon a prueba tu ingenio
13 TypingWeb, aprende a teclear más rápido
14 Efficiencity, una ciudad limpia y energéticamente eficiente
15 Electric Box
16 KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
17 Bipole, los polos opuestos se atraen
18 Blackout, un juego de energía eólica del grupo ABB
19 Controla, simulador de control eléctrico interactivo de Red Eléctrica
20 Cogitate, misión engranaje de oro
21 IncrediBots, construye robots increíbles
22 El camión más resistente del mundo, un advergame de Volvo Trucks
23 Paper Pilot, simulador de aviones de papel
24 Eurostar Driver, conduce un tren desde Roma hasta Florencia
25 Alerta CO2, salva Metrópolis del cambio climático
26 Binary Game, un tetris con números binarios
27 Algodoo, la evolución de Phun
28 Gate, diseña el circuito de control de tu robot
29 VynilGame, la industria del PVC y su desarrollo sostenible
30 Energuy, un juego sobre el ahorro energético
31 Tower of Goo Unlimited, construye la torre más alta posible!
32 ATM M3 Simulator, conduce el metro de Milán
33 Simutrans, construye la red de transporte que siempre has soñado
34 Internet seguro para los niños
35 Light-bot, programa tu robot
36 Keyboard Game, un juego para los que se pierden en el teclado
37 Tower Constructor, construye torres estables y sólidas
38 Build a robot, construye el robot de tus sueños
39 The Contraption, al más puro estilo de The Incredible Machine
40 Confusebox, enciende todas las bombillas
41 Ayuda al Pitufo Manitas a montar su coche
42 Diseña tu máquina de pinball con Future Pinball
43 Ramps, el juego de las rampas
44 Insurgo, construye la torre más alta
45 Fantastic Contraption, juega con las leyes físicas
46 Tetrical, un tetris 3D para mejorar la visión espacial
47 FWG Bridge 2 ¡A construir más puentes!
48 Bloc Smart, el juego de la construcción
49 FWG Bridge ¡A construir puentes!
50 Construye puentes con Bridge Building Game
51 Tom's Trap-o-Matic, por fin Tom atrapa a Jerry
52 Whizzball, consigue que la bola llegue a su destino
53 Rubicon, a machine-building puzzle game
54 Konstruction Zone, el juego serio de la construcción
55 Brain Strainer, tu misión: Lanzar un cohete
56 WeAtheR, salva el planeta del cambio climático
57 Journées de l´air pur, le jeu
58 Reflections Laser game
59 Hapland, ingenio y paciencia
60 TypeRacer, mejora tu velocidad de escritura jugando
61 Gears, completa el sistema de engranajes
62 Phun, the incredible machine
63 Crayon Physics Deluxe y tablet PC
64 Lego Digital Designer
65 PhysicDraw, 100% divertido y educativo
66 ClassTools, crea tus propios juegos
67 Phun, la física divertida
68 VirtualMEC, un Meccano virtual
69 Powerup, evita la destrucción del planeta Helios - El serious game de IBM
70 Robotprog, programa tu robot
71 BlockCAD, un programa de CAD con bloques tipo LEGO
72 EdHeads, simple machines activities
73 Journey to Geoterra, un advergame de General Electric para la educación ambiental
74 El Desafío de Worky, videojuego educativo en prevención de riesgos laborales
75 Peter Packet, un juego para aprender como funciona Internet
76 Energy Flows, ordena el flujo de la energía desde la fuente hasta su aplicación
77 Goldburger to go, ajusta la máquina de Rube Goldberg
78 The Resistors, una serie de animación de la televisión irlandesa
79 Launchball, un descendiente de The Incredible Machine
80 Serious Games, los juegos son también serios
81 Construye puentes con Bridge Construction Set
82 Racing Academy, configura tu vehículo con las máximas prestaciones
83 Guardianes del Clima, un serious game sobre el cambio climático
84 Un Juego Peligroso, el futuro de la humanidad en peligro
85 SoupToys, crea en tu escritorio tu habitación de juegos virtual
86 LDraw, tu LEGO virtual
87 Myabodo, construye tu casa ecológica
88 Ballon Car Builder, diseña tu vehículo autopropulsado
89 Grain Strain !Que no se te caiga ni un grano!
90 The CCL Game
91 Honoloko
92 Clankid
93 Twinoo, ejercita los dos hemisferios de tu cerebro
94 Googles, el simulador de vuelo de Google Maps
95 Electrocity, construye tu ciudad sostenible
96 Lego Digital Designer
97 Alice, programación para una nueva generación
98 Nobelprize.org
99 Revive el proceso de construcción de la gran pirámide de Keops en 3D
100 EdHeads, activa tu mente

Fuente: tecnoTIC.com

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Something on connectivism

CCK08. We live in a complex and changing world. A world in which knowledge is rapidly growing with multiple tools augments our ability to interact with each other. The learning process is changing and we need new models and metaphors to explain how knowledge is acquired. Nowadays digital technology is an important part of everyday life for almost all students and some teachers. As Prensky says, “our students are all «native speakers» of the digital language of computers, videogames and the Internet” (Prensky, 2001). Does this affect the way in what students learn?
According to Prensky a typical high school student in USA have watched 20,000 hours of television; have spent 10,000 hours playing videogames and have been reading only 5,000 hours. The new generation is digital native and it means there are a new attitude to technology and some new process that affects learning. Some of them are:

• Friends distributed across multiple networks as instant messengers, social networks (MySpace, Facebook, etc.), email addresses and cell phone contacts.
• Online reading and writing. The screen is a natural place to access and show information that could be text, pictures, videos, chat session, forum discussions or a Wikipedia article. As opposed to previous generation with strong text-based learning, digital natives make an intensive media mix.
• Emphasis on practice. Digital natives usually don’t read manuals or instructions and trust that devices can teach how to manipulate them itself. Trial and error is often a quickly way to get what you want quickly.

Connectivism is a learning theory that fits perfectly to this context and explains how learning happens in a rapid changing core of global knowledge. Connectivism can be defined as “the application of network principles to define both knowledge and the process of learning. Knowledge is defined as a particular pattern of relationships and learning is defined as the creation of new connections and patterns as well as the ability to maneuver around existing networks/patterns” (Siemens, 2008).
To understand the network metaphor we need to know a bit about networks theory. For Wellman a network consist of one or more nodes connected by on or more ties. Nodes are a unit that possibility is connected (for example, individuals, households, workgroups, organizations, states, etc) and ties are one or more specific type of connection. Networks form distinct and analyzable patterns with emergent properties. Following this concepts it is possibly to represent a college student learning network in a graphic like this:

We can explain how learning occurs following nodes and ties and understanding that the key of learn is the process of make connections. The more nodes an ties, the more strong is the knowledge. This is a good way to represent how we learn across diverse sources recognizing and interpreting patterns within a network that is changing continuously. However, there are some questions to connectivism that I have no answer for the moment.

• Connectivism is clearly related to network theory that is relevant to see connections and relationship between components of a process. Nevertheless, is knowledge only the sum of nodes and ties? If the answer must yes… are these entities relevant to explain by itself the whole learning process.
• Think in this example: All computer programs are at least a vast group of zeros and ones. It’s a fact. But can not understand and explain how it works analyzing only these numbers. The binary code represents process, relationship and interaction. In other words, software is more than the binary code.
• What is the role of external factors? Culture, environment and context influence the learning process and favor some relationship instead of others. Networks don’t exist in an empty space and there are some other elements that determine and model knowledge acquisition.

Nonetheless, these questions to come from an initial impressions after introducing in connectivism theory. Perhaps, I loosing some vital node or ties to understand it in a more deeply way.
References

• Prensky (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Inmigrants. Retrieved September 28, 2008 from Prensky Web Site: http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
• Wellman, B. (n/d) Networks for Newbies. A Non-Technical Introduction to Social Network Analysis. Retrieved September 28, 2008 from Wellman’s Page at University of Toronto Web Site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/networksfornewbies/networks4newbies.ppt
• Siemens, G. (2008) What is the unique idea in Connectivism? Retrieved September 28, 2008 from Connectivism Blog Web Site: http://connectivism.ca/blog/2008/08/what_is_the_unique_idea_in_con.html

From: http://www.conectivismo.com/en/2008/10/primer-paper-del-curso-de-conectivismo-cck08/
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