Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds

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Scientific Habits of Mindin Virtual Worlds

• Constance SteinkuehlerSean Duncan

GamesLearningSociety Group University of
WisconsinMadison Academic ADL Co-Lab
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I study virtual worlds learning.
Ethnography Specific RQs MacArthur
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Collaborative problem solving Digital literacy
practices Scientific habits of mind Computational
literacy artifacts Collaborative learning
(pop cosmopolitanism)
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Collaborative problem solving Digital literacy
practices Scientific habits of mind Computational
literacy artifacts Collaborative learning
(pop cosmopolitanism)
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informal scientific reasoning
Kuhn (1991) Metacognition
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Informal Scientific Reasoning.
(why I worry)
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built
of stones but an accumulation of facts is no
more science than a heap of stones is a house.
(Poincaré 1905)
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AAAS standards for scientific habits of mind
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in massively multiplayer online games?
SteelDragon
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Context of research
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Why World of Warcraft?
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plot study
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full investigation
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roughly 2000 posts over 85 threads
RANDOM SAMPLE Confidence interval 9 PRE patch
2.0.1
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analytic framework
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12 /3 wow.content
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scientific discursive practices
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scientific discursive practices
modelbased reasoning
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scientific discursive practices
modelbased reasoning
tacitepistemology
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92 interrater reliability _at_ 4
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is the talk productive?
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scientific discursive practices
build on others ideas 43use of
counterarguments 43use of data /
evidence 33alternative explanations of
data 14references outside resources 8
of 86 SKC
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model based reasoning
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system based reasoning, understanding feedback
model based reasoning
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system based reasoning, understanding feedback
model based reasoning
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model-based reasoning, model testing
prediction
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system based reasoning, understanding feedback
model based reasoning
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mathematical modeling, mathematical computation
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model-based reasoning, model testing
prediction
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an example post
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
social knowledge construction
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
model based reasoning
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
references outside resources
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
model testing/prediction
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The unforunate fact is that there is no shadow
nuke... and no shadow nuke which bennefits from
reduced casting time. All other casters
(including holy priests) have a nuke which
bennefits from reduced casting time bane,
improved fireball, improved frostbolt, divine
fury, improved wrath. I have put together my own
spreadsheet which goes into more detail and takes
into account exactly what happens to spells with
regard to talents and gives a column at the end
expressing each spell's total scaling with
respect to dmg applied per second (i.e. how much
your gear actually improves your dps)
http//geocities.com/omitted.htmIf I got
anything wrong feel free to email me at
omitted_at_gmail.com but if you read up at
wowwiki.com and check out the coefficients used
in the theorycraft mod you'll find that I'm
consistent with respect to them.You see there
at the end - if you add flay and swp together you
see that shadow is at 31, where fire mages are
around 48. I have done some preliminary numbers
for the expansion and shadow only improves to 35
as fire mages jump way up to 60. If flay were
empowered to the point that it recieved 65 of
dmg then shadow would be up around 45 dps
scaling. That would be quite respectible
considering that a shadow priest can swp/flay for
nearly 2 minutes without interruption where other
classes would peter out in a minute or less
except for their mana recovery abilities. Without
empowered scaling shadow priests will languish at
under 50 of the endgame dps of mages and
warlocks.
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the mathematical model
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tacit epistemologies
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tacit epistemologies
Whose mom believes that
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tacit epistemologies
Its just opinion
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tacit epistemologies
I see your point here, but I wonder if..
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tacit epistemologies
Compare to Kuhn (1991)
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and compared to schools?
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one in five Americans scientifically literate
(Miller, 2004)
Despite Why?
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Standard inquiry activities engender
epistemological beliefs contrary to science
(Chinn Malhotra, 2002)
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thank you
constances_at_gmail.comwww.constances.org
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