Parents who have a hard time getting their teenagers off the computer and away from video games, now might want to allow for more time to play games. It’s a big business! 97 percent of teenagers play them! A pew research center study reveals teens spend one hour and 13 minutes playing video games each day. Now, scientists are using the love of the game to get kids to love learning! A new game, called immune attack, developed by biochemists and gaming programmers, is a 3D video game that plunges students into a microscopic world of the bodys immune system. Immune attack is a game that teaches the player what cells look like, where proteins are found, and how cells communicate with each other. The game teaches students about cell biology and molecular science. The mission is to save a virtual patient suffering from a bacterial infection. The player must teach immune cells how to fight the infection. Game strategies like the capturing of white blood cells by proteins on blood vessel walls, mimic activities that occur in our bodies And more importantly, students are playing it! Visualizing science in 3D and getting kids to play a game they may just learn something.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:00:21 +0000
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