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Designing a Game for Smoking Cessation
Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009
Want to quit
smoking? Video game designers at Teachers College hope that some day you will
reach not for a cigarette, but a mobile game. For an L.A. Times blog item, click here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/quiting-smoking-is-not-childs-play-or-is-it.html
TC announced Thursday that it has received a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), through the foundation’s Health Games Research national program, to explore how digital games can improve health. Teachers College is one of nine research teams that were awarded grants from Health Games Research to help strengthen the development and use of health games.
The game Lit: A Game Intervention for Nicotine Smokers will be developed as part of a study that will design and evaluate a smoking reduction game for a mobile platform (initially, on the iPod Touch or iPhone). The game currently in development is intended to be an alternative to smoking with the goal of reducing or eliminating tobacco use in players' lives. It involves breathing into a microphone to control game play, and is coupled with sound, graphics, challenges and feedback to mimic the stimulant and relaxant effects of smoking.
The game is designed with two modes of play (“Rush” and “Relax”). These will be tested for t ... more >>
Closing the Achievement Gap by Providing Poor and Minority Students Access to Suburban Schools
Led by TC's Amy Stuart Wells, the first comprehensive study of the nation's eight remaining inter-district school desegregation programs - which were expressly created to enable disadvantaged, black and Latino students cross school district boundary lines and attend affluent, predominantly white suburban public schools - has found that these programs help close black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps, improve racial attitudes and lead to long-term mobility and further education for the students of color who participate. Published: 11/12/2009
Measuring School Readiness in Very Young Children
New research from Teachers College centering on a unique social experiment undertaken by an entire county in upstate New York offers some of the strongest evidence to date that the "school readiness" of young children upon entering kindergarten can be dramatically improved by providing them with stronger non-academic social supports along with informal education at home. Published: 11/2/2009
Can Community Colleges Rise to the Occasion?
In an article appearing in the November issue of American Prospect, CCRC director Thomas Bailey and Macomb Community College president Jim Jacobs discuss President Obama's recent $12 billion proposal to increase community college graduation rates. They sketch out the role two-year public colleges can play in promoting both educational equity and long-term economic prosperity. Published: 10/27/2009
Summer Research Program for Science Teachers Boosts Regents Exams Pass Rate
Participants in Columbia University's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers boosted their students' pass rate on the state science Regents exams by 10 points, according to a report in the Oct. 16 issue of Science. The program was developed in consultation with O. Roger Anderson, professor of natural sciences at Teachers College. Published: 10/16/2009
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