It would be wonderful if students had the opportunity to make scientific discoveries on their own.
Yes, absolutely. As shminux points out below, it isn’t practical to expect students to (re-)make real scientific discoveries during their training, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t game-ify scientific training using a simpler universe wherein novel discoveries are a lot closer at hand.
Well the simplest version of this is to do something like play Zendo), but that has a variety of problems, such as the fact that rule sets often connect more to human psychology than anything else.
Yes, absolutely. As shminux points out below, it isn’t practical to expect students to (re-)make real scientific discoveries during their training, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t game-ify scientific training using a simpler universe wherein novel discoveries are a lot closer at hand.
Well the simplest version of this is to do something like play Zendo), but that has a variety of problems, such as the fact that rule sets often connect more to human psychology than anything else.