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Gaming: A cheat mode for reality
I’ve noticed that rubberbanding (aka levelled gameplay or dynamic game balancing) is a good metaphor to describe what Lev Vygotsky, a russian educational scientist, described as keeping a learner in the ‘zone of proximal development‘. This means that the environment … Continue reading →
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