What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy Second Edition

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466886420
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition written by James Paul Gee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, new games like World of WarCraft and Half Life 2 are evaluated and theories of cognitive development are expanded. Gee looks at major cognitive activities including how individuals develop a sense of identity, how we grasp meaning, how we evaluate and follow a command, pick a role model, and perceive the world.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820497037
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Video Games + Good Learning written by James Paul Gee and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook

Author : Yasmin B. Kafai
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551551
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected Gaming written by Yasmin B. Kafai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity. Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis on the instructionist approach to gaming, however, has overshadowed the constructionist approach, in which students learn by designing their own games themselves. In this book, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke discuss the educational benefits of constructionist gaming—coding, collaboration, and creativity—and the move from “computational thinking” toward “computational participation.” Kafai and Burke point to recent developments that support a shift to game making from game playing, including the game industry's acceptance, and even promotion, of “modding” and the growth of a DIY culture. Kafai and Burke show that student-designed games teach not only such technical skills as programming but also academic subjects. Making games also teaches collaboration, as students frequently work in teams to produce content and then share their games with in class or with others online. Yet Kafai and Burke don't advocate abandoning instructionist for constructionist approaches. Rather, they argue for a more comprehensive, inclusive idea of connected gaming in which both making and gaming play a part.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781453911624
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Author : Conceição Costa
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1914587529
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ECGBL 2022 16th European Conference on Game-Based Learning written by Conceição Costa and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ton Spil
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1914587898
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Game-Based Learning written by Ton Spil and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2023), hosted by Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal on 7-8 September 2023. The Conference Chair is Prof Florinda Matos, and the Programme Chair is Prof Álvaro Rosa, both from Iscte Business School, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. ECKM is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 24th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Professor Leif Edvinsson, on the topic of Intellectual Capital as a Missed Value. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Professor Noboru Konno from Tama Graduate School and Keio University, Japan who will talk about Society 5.0, Knowledge and Conceptual Capability, and Professor Jay Liebowitz, who will talk about Digital Transformation for the University of the Future. With an initial submission of 350 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 184 Academic research papers, 11 PhD research papers, 1 Masters Research paper, 4 Non-Academic papers and 11 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, México, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, UK, United Arab Emirates and the USA.

Author : Sullivan, Pamela M.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799802477
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies written by Sullivan, Pamela M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allure and marketplace power of digital technologies continues to hold sway over the field of education with billions spent annually on technology in the United States alone. Literacy instruction at all levels is influenced by these evolving and ever-changing tools. While this opens the door to innovations in literacy curricula, it also adds a pedagogical responsibility to operate within a well-developed conceptual framework to ensure instruction is complemented or augmented by technology and does not become secondary to it. The Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies is a comprehensive research publication that considers the integration of digital technologies in all levels of literacy instruction and prepares the reader for inevitable technological advancements and changes. Covering a wide range of topics such as augmented reality, literacy, and online games, this book is essential for educators, administrators, IT specialists, curriculum developers, instructional designers, teaching professionals, academicians, researchers, education stakeholders, and students.

Author : Cathy Collins Block
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606237829
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehension Instruction, Second Edition written by Cathy Collins Block and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive professional resource and text is based on cutting-edge research. In each chapter, leading scholars provide an overview of a particular aspect of comprehension, offer best-practice instructional guidelines and policy recommendations, present key research questions still to be answered, and conclude with stimulating questions for individual study or discussion. Coverage includes such timely topics as differentiated instruction, technology and reading comprehension, teaching English language learners, and the implications of current neuroscientific findings.

Author : Yasmin B. Kafai
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262336960
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected Gaming written by Yasmin B. Kafai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity. Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis on the instructionist approach to gaming, however, has overshadowed the constructionist approach, in which students learn by designing their own games themselves. In this book, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke discuss the educational benefits of constructionist gaming—coding, collaboration, and creativity—and the move from “computational thinking” toward “computational participation.” Kafai and Burke point to recent developments that support a shift to game making from game playing, including the game industry's acceptance, and even promotion, of “modding” and the growth of a DIY culture. Kafai and Burke show that student-designed games teach not only such technical skills as programming but also academic subjects. Making games also teaches collaboration, as students frequently work in teams to produce content and then share their games with in class or with others online. Yet Kafai and Burke don't advocate abandoning instructionist for constructionist approaches. Rather, they argue for a more comprehensive, inclusive idea of connected gaming in which both making and gaming play a part.

Author : Hannah R. Gerber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096686
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging Literacies with Videogames written by Hannah R. Gerber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging Literacies with Videogames provides an international perspective of literacy practices, gaming culture, and traditional schooling. Featuring studies from Australia, Colombia, South Korea, Canada, and the United States, this edited volume addresses learning in primary, secondary, and tertiary environments with topics related to: • re-creating worlds and texts • massive multiplayer second language learning • videogames and classroom learning These diverse topics will provide scholars, teachers, and curriculum developers with empirical support for bringing videogames into classroom spaces to foster meaning making. Bridging Literacies with Videogames is an essential text for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty interested in contemporizing learning with the medium of the videogame.