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Overcoming Writer's Block, is that possible? By Marco Antônio Bomfoco Are you staring at the empty page for hours? Well let me tell you something. You got writer's block. Writer's block is an inability to write. Possibly, all writers have faced it. It is need to be stressed that writer's block says there is a problem with your project. The whole point here is: ask yourself honestly what are the reasons that contribute to your difficulty in writing. Don't you need more information? Don't you pick something big and obvious? Aren't you dealing with uncomfortable material? Don't you have your own point of view about the subject? Note that writing is a process, a series of steps or stages that include a whole array of support tasks that you should be able to deal with -- and most of the steps in the process don't look anything like the polished work. Besides that, you should not to confound writer's block with procrastination. Procrastination i...

What is Multiple Intelligences theory, and why is it important? By Marco Antônio Bomfoco Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory (MI)(2006) states that human beings have different combinations of intelligences. This pluralistic approach is an alternative vision to the traditional notion that intelligence can be objectively measured and reduced to a single number, the IQ. The first intelligence tests carried out at the beginning of the twentieth century, which focused on verbal abilities, were developed by the French psychologist Alfred Binet and his colleagues in Paris. The motivation of their research was to respond to a request from the authorities to create a measure to predict which students were likely to need special attention in schooling. These early empirical experiments introduced the concept of intelligence as a quantifiable measure. Above all, the notion of intelligence as a single number has finally corroborated the one-dimensional view of the mind. The...

Jogos eletrônicos de lazer e princípios de aprendizagem Por Marco Antônio Bomfoco e Victor Abreu de Azevedo Pesquisadores como Jim Gee acreditam que existem princípios promotores da aprendizagem nos bons jogos eletrônicos. Esses princípios de aprendizagem (PA) podem ser úteis no que chama de domínio semiótico da vida cotidiana. No que segue, damos definições de alguns PA exemplificados com o jogo eletrônico L.A. Noire desenvolvido em 2011 pela produtora Team Bondi e publicado pela Rockstar Games*. Identidade : os JEs motivam o jogador por meio da identidade do personagem com quem joga. Este personagem pode ser herdado pelo jogador, ou criado e desenvolvido por ele. Por ex.: em L.A. Noire o jogador assume a identidade de um detetive na Los Angeles dos anos 1940.  Interação : os JEs necessitam da interação do jogador para o seu desenvolvimento e a partir dela recebe feedback e novos desafios. Por ex.: em L.A.N. o jogador pode optar por várias estratégias de investigação pa...