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The Matter of Museums

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This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? On one hand, I have the knowledge base to help me frame the issues. People are the defining characteristics of museums. I'm not alone there.

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Game Friday: Treating Players Like Experts

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But those are skill-based games. More interesting to me is the phenomenon of granting players some “starter knowledge”—for example, expertise as an archaelogist. In knowledge-based games, it’s hard to mask player non-proficiencies. But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum?

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