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A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology

Posted by timothy on from the next-up-should-be-history dept.

kilrathu writes "Longtime proponents of using video games as sources of learning, the Federation of American Scientists put its money where its mouth is. FAS released Immune Attack, an educational video game designed to teach immunology to AP level high school students and combines the most current research on teaching methodologies with a 3D first-person shooter game. 'The key to the game was making sure it was fun while also covering accurate and complex immunology topics,' said Dr. Michelle Lucey-Roper, director of the FAS Learning Technologies Program. The game is free, although not open source, and can be downloaded here. Sorry, no Mac version yet."

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  1. "Sorry, no Mac version yet." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only a Windows version, is more accurate.

    1. Re:"Sorry, no Mac version yet." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      This is why macs suck :P

    2. Re:"Sorry, no Mac version yet." by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It thought it was a bit odd in this day and age to not even acknowledge that linux exists.

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  2. What does AP mean? by Mex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Forgive the ignorance but I am not american, what does AP stand for?

  3. Fun? by BenoitRen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they wanted to make it fun for everyone, they should have made it a fun puzzle game or something instead of an FPS.

  4. Re:The medium is the message. . . by shawb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The information you're looking for can be found here.

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  5. Re:Way to go by sunwolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know you jest, but I find the linked ABC article more disturbing - half of it doesn't even talk about the game, but about how evil videogames like Halo and Grand Theft Auto have deteriorated public trust in the medium. I could have honestly used a more thorough review of the game in question instead of more meandering over media-generated FUD.

  6. No Mac version... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... but the video shows a classroom of students running the game on a lab of iMacs! Are they really dual-booting Windows or running a VM on all those Macs just to play the game? Sounds expensive from a licensing perspective.

      Also odd, in the video when the teacher is introduced she says her name is Netia (as do the credits) but the text overlay introduces her as Jessica. Those two are not even close.

      Funny enough, a Netia Elam appeared as a contestant on a TV game show called "Love's a Trip" according to IMDB

      Wonder if it's the same woman, she's not bad looking :)