EDTC-645-700 Instructed by Dr. Ronald Zellner

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EDTC-645-700Instructed by Dr. Ronald Zellner

• Digital Game-Based Learning
• HyperText Instruction
• By Gayle Fisher

Dedicated to the Mundaneum and to Paul Otlet,
visionary and pioneer of the early global
network of computers (or electric telescopes,
as he called them). Kind of like the Father
of HyperText.
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Will Students Benefit from DGBL?

• A proven track record of educators and teachers
  have endorsed DGBL, and many teacher tools exist.
• Your students are digital natives, and they are
  depending on you to talk their language.
• We will discuss pioneers in DGBL, its history,
  game theory, and
• (best of all) look at some games that stimulate
  learning.

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2 Pathfinders of DGBL

• Marc Prensky - His book 'Digital Game-Based
  Learning' was the first major publication to
  define the term, although given the embryonic
  state of the serious game industry it has
  continued to evolve since then.
• More about Marc
• Richard Van Eck - Associate Professor of
  Instructional Design and Technology at the
  University of North Dakota, teaches the theory
  behind the effectiveness of games in teaching and
  learning what the past can teach us about if,
  how, and when to implement digital game-based
  learning and what this will mean for colleges
  and universities.
• More about Richard

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Marc Prensky

• Biography (both in education and business)
• Writings (books, articles, predictions)
• Blog
• Games Games2train (his company)

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Richard Van Eck

• Generation G and the 21st Century
• Richard Van Eck
• Podcast

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History Theory of Games
History What does Wikipedia say about Serious
Games or DGBL? What is Game Theory?
(Game Impact Theory The Five Forces That Are
Driving the Adoption of Game Technologies within
Multiple Established Industries. By Roger Smith,
Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Army Simulation,
Training, and Instrumentation) Another Game
Theory link. Another one. And of course,
Wikipedia on Game Theory

• Here is a clock game that has simple animation.
• Paper Airplanes Learn how to fold origami
  designs.
• Want to know what I think about DGBL?

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Advocates of DGBL(Why Should I Believe in DGBL?)

• Educating the Net Generation (This 264-page
  collection explores the Net Gen and the
  implications for institutions in areas such as
  teaching, service, learning space design, faculty
  development, and curriculum. Contributions by
  educators and students are included.")
• Some more smart people and what they say
  (Encyclopedia of Educational Technology)

Trackstar Favorite Places - Use these
teacher-selected and teacher-tested Favorite
Places. Here are two TrackStars to DGBL DGBL -
This presentation (What is
TrackStar?) It's Not Just the Digital Natives
Who Are Restless
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Games You Personally Learn From
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What Games You Would Use for Learning If You
Were Teacher? Why?

• OK, now its your turn to be Teacher. What
  games would you add and WHY?
• I would add ____________________________________
  because _____________
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• I would add ____________________________________
  because _____________
• _________________________________________________
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• I would add ____________________________________
  because _____________
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• Please email me each of your nominations, and I
  will add them to my web pages.

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Some Digital Games that Promote Learning
Quest Atlantis This game is committed to
bringing together the power of videogames,
academics, and participation in
socially-meaningful activities. Participation is
designed to enhance the lives of children while
helping them grow into knowledgeable,
responsible, and empathetic adults. The QA
project will foster an awareness of 7 critical
dimensions in order to actualize them in the
lives of children Professor Fizzwizzle He
needs your help! His once-friendly Friend-Bots
have gone in to rage mode, and have thrown him
out of his lab! Can you puzzle your way past the
Rage-Bots and help Professor Fizzwizzle set
things right? He's counting on you! Fantasy
Stock Market - Since 1998, Fantasy Stock
Market has provided a fun, interactive and
competitive way to learn about investing and the
stock markets to over 1/2 Million individuals and
10,000 Leagues Revenge of the Logic Spiders
Figure out how to escape the hungry spiders!
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Quest Atlantis
The Game Welcome to the Quest! Your help is
urgently needed on Atlantis. The Atlantian
council is seeking your advice regarding
important matters. On Atlantis, water and air are
polluted, fish are dying, cities are decaying,
people are sick. Your time has come to help by
venturing on exciting Quests, searching for
answers and sharing your findings with the
council. As an active Quester you will become
part of an international community of students.
Talk to and share your ideas with Questers in
Malaysia, Turkey, Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
China, and different parts of the United States.
What Wikipedia says Background
Video/Audio A bit more background
Creator and his story
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Professor Fizzwizzle

• Professor Fizzwizzle needs your help! His
  once-friendly Friend-Bots have gone in to rage
  mode, and have thrown him out of his lab! Can you
  puzzle your way past the Rage-Bots and help
  Professor Fizzwizzle set things right? He's
  counting on you!

REVIEW This has got to be one of the best
puzzle games I have played so far. At first the
cartoon-like graphics got me, and I thought, that
it's a somewhat easy, but at least a really cute
game. Then I realized after just 50 of the
regular levels, that it needs much more thinking,
than it seemed first. The level sets are clever,
the game is mixing the real hard ones with some
relaxing easier ones, even in one level set. The
Kids' levels are of course fairly easy, but I bet
that some of them will make even them thinking
about "what should I do here?". I really
recommend this one, for the whole family. Nice
graphics and brain-twisting gameplay, what else
could be needed? )
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Fantasy Stock Market
This Fantasy Stock Market game is not as boring
as it looks. Do you like to make money? Do
you think you will need money in your future?
Since 1998, Fantasy Stock Market has provided a
fun, interactive and competitive way to learn
about investing and the stock markets to over 1/2
million individuals and 10,000 Leagues
Reviews
League Play (Teams)
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Revenge of the Logic Spiders

                                                                           

Revenge of the Logic Spiders helps students
apply deeper levels of comprehension and logic to
their schoolwork and to standardized and aptitude
tests. The game is fun, challenging, and an
effective independent learning program.Each
activity sharpens reasoning and comprehension
through multiple-choice word problems that become
progressively more challenging. Each possible
answer must be read and analyzed carefully. Only
the correct inferences and deductions allow
students to escape the hungry spiders.
Recognized as helping in test preparation Awards
and Honors Download free demos
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Successful Examples of Games Implemented in
Learning

• Professor Chris Dede and his team at Harvard
  Graduate School of Education
• Financial Education - Jumptart Coalition
• Proof of Learning Assessment in Serious Games

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How Learning in the Classroom is Changing

• Professor Chris Dede and his team at Harvard
  Graduate School of Education
• Engaging Viewers, Virtually
• Handhelds, Avatars, and Virtual Aliens
• Know anyone using games for learning?

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Financial Education Jumptart Coalition

• Show Me The Future
• Youll have a whole new identity including
  occupation, income, whether youre married or
  single, whether or not you have kids, and more.  
  You have a checking account with a register,
  which will contain the money you earned as your
  new identity.  Then you get to make choices, like
  the kind of house youll live in and what youre
  going to eat, based on your identity.  Every
  choice you make costs money, which will be
  deducted from the money in your checking
  account.  The trick to the game is to see if you
  can make ends meet and still have some cash at
  the end.

A few of the other games offered Consumer
Jungle Easy Street Mathematics Economics
Connections for Life
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Proof of Learning Assessment in Serious Games

• Who is the user of serious games?
• In Houston, Texas, a new hire steps onto a
  simulated offshore drilling platform and
  rehearses safety protocols. In Washington, D.C.,
  a firefighter surveys a digital raging forest
  fire and chooses locations for trenches and
  firebreaks. A soldier in Iraq prepares for an
  upcoming mission using a detailed simulation of
  the urban battlefield. And a high school student
  in Portland, Oregon, manages the political
  campaign of Abe Lincoln as he tries to beat out
  Rudy Giuliani in the presidential elections of
  2008.
• All these are users of serious games.

Games and game technology are poised to
transform the way we educate and train students
at all levels. But these games and repurposed
game technology, collectively called "serious
games," have yet to be fully embraced by
educators. It's not enough to declare that
"games teach" and leave it at that. Teachers
aren't going to hand out a game to a bunch of
students and simply trust that the students have
learned the material. Serious games, like every
other tool of education, must be able to show
that the necessary learning has occurred.
Specifically, games that teach also need to be
games that test.. Assessment in
Serious Games
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Go Games !!
A little animated gif for you (Closed Caption
If you can learn from games, then Go Games!
Its a good thing!
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