Educational GameBased Learning

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Educational Game-Based Learning

• Brenda Kerr

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Why Use Games?

• How the Net-Generation interacts with media.
• Promote learning/interest in topic
• Reduce Instructional Time
• Change attitudes toward a topic
• Non-threatening
• May improve visual and cognitive skills

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Why Are Games Effective?

• Learning takes place within a meaningful context.
  (Situated Cognition)
• Play is a primary socialization mechanism in our
  culture.
• Cognitive disequilibrium and resolution
  (Assimilation/Accommodation)

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Richard Van Eck

• Digital Game-Based Learning and the Future of
  Education
• MTSU IT Conference
• www.mtsu.edu/itconf/mtsufac/

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Types of Learning Determines Game Style

• Facts
• Skills
• Judgment
• Behaviors
• Theories
• Reasoning
• Observation

• Process
• Procedures
• Creativity
• Language
• Systems
• Communication

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Card Games

• Promote the ability to
• Match concepts
• Manipulate Numbers
• Recognize Patterns

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Jeopardy Style Games

• Promote learning of
• Verbal information
• Facts, labels, and propositions
• Concrete Concepts

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Site License and Free Software

• Respondus StudyMate(MTSU Site License)
• Quandary - Web-based Action Mazes or Interactive
  Case Study (http//www.halfbakedsoftware.com/)

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Arcade-Style Games

• Promote
• Speed of Response
• Automaticity
• Visual Processing

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Adventure Games

• Narrative-driven open-ended learning environments
  promote
• Hypothesis testing
• Problem solving

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3 Approaches for Integrating Games into the
Curriculum

• Students Build Games from Scratch
• Educators and/or Developers from Scratch for
  Students to Use
• Use Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Games

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Students Create Games From Scratch

• Flash
• Adobe Flash
• Mediator 8

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Instructors / Developers Create Games

• Environmental Detectives
• Hazmat Hotzone
• River City
• Virtual Uhttp//www.virtual-u.org/

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Commercial Off-The- Shelf Games (COTS)

• Most Cost Effective (Money Time)
• Game Examples
• Civilization (history)
• CSI (forensics criminal justice)
• SimCity (engineering)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon (engineering)
• RollerCoaster and CruiseShip Tycoon (business
  management)

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COTS Websites

• www.Silversprite.blogspot.com
• www.socialimpactgames.com
• www.gamesparentsteachers.com

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Next Step - Emersion

• Second Lifewww.secondlife.com
• Whyvillewww.whyville.net