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Author : Peter A. Hastie
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1450409148
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Student-Designed Games written by Peter A. Hastie and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter A. Hastie
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736085908
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Student-designed Games written by Peter A. Hastie and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student-Designed Games: Strategies for Promoting Creativity, Cooperation, and Skill Development guides teachers and students in devising games that are inclusive, creative, educational, and fun. Students can adapt games they already play or create new ones with templates. It includes assessments and rubrics, and it outlines teaching strategies.
Author : Jeremiah McCall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136832092
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Gaming the Past written by Jeremiah McCall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and learning tools in their classes. As the games and learning field continues to grow in importance, Gaming the Past provides social studies teachers and teacher educators help in implementing this unique and engaging new pedagogy. This book focuses on specific examples to help social studies educators effectively use computer simulation games to teach critical thinking and historical analysis. Chapters cover the core parts of conceiving, planning, designing, and implementing simulation based lessons. Additional topics covered include: Talking to colleagues, administrators, parents, and students about the theoretical and practical educational value of using historical simulation games. Selecting simulation games that are aligned to curricular goals Determining hardware and software requirements, purchasing software, and preparing a learning environment incorporating simulations Planning lessons and implementing instructional strategies Identifying and avoiding common pitfalls Developing activities and assessments for use with simulation games that facilitate the interpretation and creation of established and new media Also included are sample unit and lesson plans and worksheets as well as suggestions for further reading. The book ends with brief profiles of the majority of historical simulation games currently available from commercial vendors and freely on the Internet.
Author : Gonzalez, Carina
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466619880
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Student Usability in Educational Software and Games: Improving Experiences written by Gonzalez, Carina and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores new models of interaction and human-computer interaction paradigms as applied to learning environments"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Yasmin B. Kafai
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551551
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Connected Gaming written by Yasmin B. Kafai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity. Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis on the instructionist approach to gaming, however, has overshadowed the constructionist approach, in which students learn by designing their own games themselves. In this book, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke discuss the educational benefits of constructionist gaming—coding, collaboration, and creativity—and the move from “computational thinking” toward “computational participation.” Kafai and Burke point to recent developments that support a shift to game making from game playing, including the game industry's acceptance, and even promotion, of “modding” and the growth of a DIY culture. Kafai and Burke show that student-designed games teach not only such technical skills as programming but also academic subjects. Making games also teaches collaboration, as students frequently work in teams to produce content and then share their games with in class or with others online. Yet Kafai and Burke don't advocate abandoning instructionist for constructionist approaches. Rather, they argue for a more comprehensive, inclusive idea of connected gaming in which both making and gaming play a part.
Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518651
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Critical Play written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan examines alternative games—games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry—and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture. Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows and The Sims. She looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games and explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns—including worldwide poverty and AIDS—can be incorporated into game design. Arguing that this kind of conscious practice—which now constitutes the avant-garde of the computer game medium—can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087903812
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Serious Educational Games written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious Educational Games: From Theory to Practice focuses on experiences and lessons learned through the design, creation and research in the Serious Education Games Movement. Serious Games is a term coined for the movement that started in 2003 for using commercial video game technology for teaching and learning purposes.
Author : Ferdig, Richard E.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599048116
Total Pages : 1762 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education written by Ferdig, Richard E. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 1762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a framework for understanding games for educational purposes while providing a broader sense of current related research. This creative and advanced title is a must-have for those interested in expanding their knowledge of this exciting field of electronic gaming"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Matt Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946444257
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Ditch That Textbook written by Matt Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.
Author : Peter A. Hastie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492574422
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Student-designed Games written by Peter A. Hastie and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tynan Sylvester
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 144933802X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Designing Games written by Tynan Sylvester and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today’s hit video games. You’ll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences—a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players. In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track, including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends. Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game design. Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other’s heads Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front Learn how your game’s market positioning will affect your design
Author : Peter A. Hastie
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781450489355
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Student-Designed Games written by Peter A. Hastie and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Student-Designed Games: Strategies for Promoting Creativity, Cooperation, and Skill Development "guides teachers and students in devising games that are inclusive, creative, educational, and fun. Students can adapt games they already play or create new ones with templates. It includes assessments and rubrics, and it outlines teaching strategies.
Author : Mark C. Carnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674735358
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Minds on Fire written by Mark C. Carnes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students’ competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileo’s trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations. “[Minds on Fire is] Carnes’s beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education’s mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present.” —James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education “This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a ‘new’ technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century.” —D. D. Bouchard, Choice
Author : Valerie Jean Shute
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518813
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Stealth Assessment written by Valerie Jean Shute and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals. To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about what should be taught in school but also about how to develop valid assessments to measure and support these competencies. In Stealth Assessment, Valerie Shute and Matthew Ventura investigate an approach that embeds performance-based assessments in digital games. They argue that using well-designed games as vehicles to assess and support learning will help combat students' growing disengagement from school, provide dynamic and ongoing measures of learning processes and outcomes, and offer students opportunities to apply such complex competencies as creativity, problem solving, persistence, and collaboration. Embedding assessments within games provides a way to monitor players' progress toward targeted competencies and to use that information to support learning. Shute and Ventura discuss problems with such traditional assessment methods as multiple-choice questions, review evidence relating to digital games and learning, and illustrate the stealth-assessment approach with a set of assessments they are developing and embedding in the digital game Newton's Playground. These stealth assessments are intended to measure levels of creativity, persistence, and conceptual understanding of Newtonian physics during game play. Finally, they consider future research directions related to stealth assessment in education.
Author : D. Michael Ploor
Publisher : Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781619602786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Video Game Design Foundations written by D. Michael Ploor and published by Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Video Game Design Foundations provides students with a complete understanding of all aspects of video game design. This "turnkey" curriculum guides students from beginning each game build project through completion, integration, and marketing. Simulated design teams learn all aspects of team building required to launch a new video game system"--
Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466886420
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition written by James Paul Gee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, new games like World of WarCraft and Half Life 2 are evaluated and theories of cognitive development are expanded. Gee looks at major cognitive activities including how individuals develop a sense of identity, how we grasp meaning, how we evaluate and follow a command, pick a role model, and perceive the world.
Author : José P. Zagal
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557277914
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Ludoliteracy written by José P. Zagal and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, it seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students are highly motivated, enjoy engaging with course content, and have extensive personal experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex.
