This semester I did an awesome experiment where I turned my class into a game: I had my students take part in a mystery adventure where each assignment told a small part of a story about a missing painting, and their grades helped determine how many clues they received in tracking down the art. The results have been AWESOME, and I have been surprised at their ability to deduce things analytically and even symbolically. I've had to work hard to make the mystery difficult enough for them! This tells me something about the nature of games and investigation - they are correlated. Investiagation is often integral to games, and our powers to deduce seem to be increased when we are in a game environment. I think next semester I'm going to take this a step further: I'm going to have my students work on an actual mystery: a real missing piece of art and a real theft, and let's see if they can determine anything useful or insightful that can help real investigators on the case. Can students solve an unsolved mystery? via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.facebook.com/pages/p/375155975925633
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