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When Are Games Good for Learning and Teaching? Examples and Explorations
Pilar Lacasa. University of Alcalá. SpainPilar Lacasa. University of Alcalá. Spain
AERA 2010. SIG‐Media, Culture, and CurriculumDenver, Sat, May 1
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Children as designers
Elizabeth M. i l
Robert J. Torres
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An Expanded Conception of Game Media Literacy
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An Expanded Conception of Game Media Literacy
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After‐School Online Program for Adolescent Boys Leveraging Online Games for Literacy
• MMOs are important “Thirdplaces” for informal learning.
• Questions• Games literacies, much
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technologies and communities of practice
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• The case of Dumptruck: he founds school to be“extremely boring”
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The Gender Gap In Technology: Re‐examining Gender Differences in Video Game Play
“This study focuses on the amount of time children spend l i id d h d hild f l th t th playing video games and how good children feel they are at the
video games”
Questions:
TIME PEOPLE SPENDS PLAYING HOW GOOD THEY THINK THEY ARE
• What about future researchs?• Games as social practices• Much more than playing “Hanna Montana”?
The Gender Gap In Technology: Re‐examining Gender Differences in Video Game Play
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The Nirvana Effect: Tapping Rhythmic Video Games to Leverage Learning and Motivation
“New representations of music (e.g.video games, composition software) can provide a third space in which learning musical
concepts can take place.”concepts can take place.
The role of motivation
Questions:
• Much more than learning music?• Social participation• The role of the teacher
The Nirvana Effect: Tapping Rhythmic Video Games to Leverage Learning and Motivation
The role of the teacher
Learning Complexity in Situ: Urban Middle Schoolers Show Understanding of Systems Thinking as a Result of Playing and Designing Games Within an Immersive
Online Platform Called Gamestar Mechanic
• Gamestar Mechanic
• Game design community
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• Instantiating a learning
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teachers?Instantiating a learning domain mediated by a video game designed may serve to facilitate the
teachers?• How to combine with
other tools?serve to facilitate the development of systems thinking skills.
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