Adult Edutainment

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Adult Edutainment

• Mona Rae Baroody

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Introduction

• My interest and qualifications
• Importance of Self-Education for Adults

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Topics of Discussion

• Definitions
• History of Adult Education and Video Games
• Present Use of Edutainment
• The Future

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Definitions

• Video Game Interactive, digital interface that
  provides entertainment through the use of story,
  graphics, and sound, to stimulate the user.
• Educational Game intentional learning tool
  when rules governing its play demand the
  development and use of educationally valuable
  skills, the acquisition of important knowledge,
  or the exploration of a worthwhile facet of
  experience. (Lewis, ed., 1993).

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Definitions

• Adult Learner Older than average students in
  the setting many and varied life experiences
  more active and internally motivated to learn
  (Snyder Hoffman, 1991 Slotnick, et al, 1993)
• Learning set of generic, finite behaviors as
  a belief system reflecting and evolving from a
  process of self-initiated learning activity
  (Kasworm, 1983, 1)
• Adult Education all activities with an
  educational purpose that are carried on by people
  engaged in the ordinary business of life
  (Grattan, 1955, 3) for the purpose of adults to
  live more successfully (Lewis, ed., 1991).

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History Adult Education

• Education primarily for adultus
• Oral tradition prior to formal institutions
• The American dream
• Commercial and industrial development

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History Video Games

• 1958 MITs Bouncing Ball
• 1961 Spacewar!
• 1968 Brown Box
• 1971 Magnavoxs Odyssey and Arcade Game Computer
  Space
• 1972 Atari and Activision
• 1976 Fairchild Camera
• 1977 Apple II
• 1984 Nintendo
• 1993 Game Boy

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Edutainment today

• Statistics from the ESA, 2003

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Edutainment today

• Television, museums and science centers
• Simulationsmilitary and corporate training
• Childrenthousands of titles
• Adultstens of titles

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The future

• Popular sites for download and online playing
• Online newspapers and journals
• Game consoles and PCs
• Political Sims and Virtual Adventure

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Conclusion

• The children of yesterdays market are adults
  today
• Results of Education

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Citations

• Essential Facts about the computer and video
  game industry 2003 sales, demographics, and
  usage data. Interactive Digital Software Assn.
  http//www.theesa.com/
• Kasworm, C. E. (1983). An examination of
  self-directed learning contracts as an
  instructional strategy. Innovative higher
  education, 8(1), 45-54.
• Lewis, L., ed. (1986). Experienctial and
  simulation techniques for teaching adults. San
  Francisco Jossey-Bass Inc.
• Slotnick, H. B., Pelton, M. H., Fuller, M. L.,
  Tabor, L. (1993) Adult learners on campus.
  London The Falmer Press.
• Snyder, T. D., Hoffman, C. M. (1991). Digest
  of educational statistics 1990. Washington
  National Center for Educational Statistics.