Tag: education
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From an imaginary world into the classroom. What is the benefit of roleplaying games in education?
Rolling dice and calculating distances that are required to plunge and arrow into a well poisoning madmen isn’t something people would expect happening in a formal education setting. However, a study shows that incorporating play behavior into curriculum has notable, yet understudied benefits in classrooms. #roleplayinggames #education #gameresearch
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Toca Boca World – A Whole New Level of Dollhouse
Bringing the magic of pretend play into the #digital age, #TocaBocaWorld creates a kid-centered universe where imagination is the only limit. #simulation #education
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Educating Interactive Narrative Designers — Is it possible to teach Storytelling?
Students could benefit from interactive narrative design courses in video game education.
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Video games – not just entertainment
Finns play more games than two years ago. Games are not seen as time-consuming nonsense, but as communicative tools.
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Learning through gaming – Are games the future in the classroom?
Gaming in classroom, a doomed combination in education? Hewett et al. article “The 21st century classroom gamer” explores this fascinating topic.
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How gaming could reduce bias and connect us
Research suggests that gaming can be used as an effective tool to reduce bias.
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Key to knowledge? How escape rooms can be utilized in pedagogy
Could educational escape rooms be the new hip pedagocical thing?
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Postcolonialism, Case: Civilization V
Civilization V is biased, imperialist and silences contrary voices. Like real history.
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Teaching German Literature Through Larp
Edu-larps may be just the thing for making German Studies more hands-on.
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How Teachers Can Easily Adopt and Adapt Serious Games in Education?
#seriousgames, game alike activities and technologies can be adopted and adapted in to #education by using #opensource tools. In an article “Keep it Simple: Lowering the Barrier for Authoring Serious Games” published in Simulation & Gaming Vol. 46, 2015 – Roland Klemke and others have researched to what extent game templates and game authoring processes…