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A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology
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."
Posting a link to a 500 MB file. That won't be a problem ;)
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Start a happiness pandemic
God Mode if they want to use it in Louisiana?
...from an early beta.
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If someone gets some sort of hard to cure disease, just let the internet controlled nano bot pilots fix it manually. All they need to do is fly around and shoot the bad cells.
God spoke to me.
Only a Windows version, is more accurate.
Forgive the ignorance but I am not american, what does AP stand for?
To pay money to inflate the living hell out of your GPA so that you can have a 5.0 GPA your senior year(yes, AP classes are one point higher than your standard prole classes). AP calculus is a good idea but classes like AP history are more like tangential trivia that you will soon forget after you pass the exam.
Did you actually read/view anything beyond the summary? This looks nothing like those. Absolutely nothing. It IS more of a first-person puzzle game than a first-person "shooter." In fact, if you look at the controls, there's not even anything to "shoot." You go through and find the necessary chemicals to activate the various parts of the immune system.
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Damn. The one time that I didn't RTFA and I get called on it. Thank you, sir, for bruising my fragile ego!
If they wanted to make it fun for everyone, they should have made it a fun puzzle game or something instead of an FPS.
The information you're looking for can be found here.
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Only a Windows version, is more accurate.
How would you create a game about fighting off viruses without an environment that's hospitable to them?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
and when they accidentally shoot the good ones?
Accidentally?
God spoke to me.
PLATO had a game/training program called "Bugs and Drugs". It was a 2D dungeon game where you ran into various organisms and had to prescribe the correct medicine to kill them. The best group to be a member of was the Bedpan Commandos.
It was written back in 1978 by Mike Gorback, Dave Tanaka and Paul Alfille.
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Er, "Immunology" is not an AP subject exam: Take a look at http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/subjects.html if you don't believe me.
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2) I don't care that you just scored a +10,000 Helper-T bonus, that does not mean you can release dilatory hormones to make the patient's scrotum turn red.
3) Yes, yes, we understand -- its a breast cancer. You're in her breast. Get over it.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.