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Victoria Pullen

Participation Nation - 2 views

interactive.usc.edu/...20090327-participat.php

3GSummit games education

shared by Victoria Pullen on 17 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Victoria Pullen on 17 Aug 10
     
    Tracy Fullerton's project with USC's Interactive Media Division. "The prototype focuses on the constitutional crisis surrounding school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. A set of webisodes and a graphic novel provide the background story of this crisis, while the central "Debate Game" asks players to use the people, laws and values from the era to support two out of three points of the argument for or against school integration, addressing questions like "Should the federal government intervene?", "Is media coverage swaying public opinion?", and "Are civil rights woth risking a constitutional crisis?" Players can take the side of the "Forces of Change" or the "Status Quo" in debate over the constitutional issues that shaped the country."
Bryan Alexander

British gaming pilot - 2 views

www.jisc.ac.uk/...gaming-classroom.aspx

education gaming support

shared by Bryan Alexander on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 05 Mar 13
     
    JISC Collections is making available selected educational games.
Bryan Alexander

Peacekeeping the Game - 6 views

www.peacekeepingthegame.com

games

shared by Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12
     
    Open source board game on political conflict.
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  • Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12
     
    How is it open-sourced? (If the answer is "read the site materials", I apologize in advance. ;)
  • Bryan Alexander on 28 Feb 12
     
    Read the site materials. :) Seriously, the rules, counters, and board are all printable there. Not an ambitious game.
  • Brett Boessen on 28 Feb 12
     
    Oh I see it now. I especially like the supporting materials -- goals, background article. Those wouldn't have to be seen by the players, but could really help the facilitator/teacher.
Bryan Alexander

Beyond gamification: reconceptualizing game-based learning in early childhood environments - 2 views

www.tandfonline.com/...1369118X.2013.808365

gaming education

shared by Bryan Alexander on 29 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 29 Aug 13
     
    The recent promotion and adoption of digital game-based learning (DGBL) in K-12 education presents compelling opportunities as well as challenges for early childhood educators who seek to critically, equitably and holistically support the learning and play of today's so-called digital natives.
Todd Bryant

Games don't Equal Academic Achievement - 20 views

edugamesresearch.com/...g-home-computers-and-academics

pedagogy research

shared by Todd Bryant on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Todd Bryant on 19 Oct 10
     
    Makes a good point. There's a big difference between showing games help students learn, and finding games that match the much more narrow objectives of a class.
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  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Oct 10
     
    Sure... compare with reading a book, or doing an experiment. It takes contextualization and reflection, which can be done by a learner (autodictat) or school (pedagogy).
  • Todd Bryant on 19 Oct 10
     
    It's also a higher level of learning that's difficult to quantify. Student A and B take History 101. Student A is given a book on US History after 1870. Gets test on same topic. If he read the book, does pretty well. Student B plays a history game, explains outcome, and compares with actual historical events. Certainly more impressive, but if given the standard 101 exam, would he do better? I think games are likely to get the short end of the stick with most standardized assessments.
  • Brett Boessen on 20 Oct 10
     
    I don't know -- it has much to do with the way the prof articulates her objectives. For us (who use games regularly), we can/will shape our objectives at least somewhat around existing titles (just as others do so around existing texts), or augment those games with other content that they don't cover (as others do with inadequate texts). So it seems the issue is more about trying to articulate why games could be useful to *others*, who don't yet use them. Trying to persuade our colleagues to try games when they've been using texts with which they're familiar to accomplish pedagogical objectives they've been using for years is going to be hard, and that's where identifying games that more directly support traditional objectives becomes a boon.
  • Ed Webb on 20 Oct 10
     
    I wonder if we could develop a few talking points tying games to Bloom's taxonomy (updated version), making clear that like all pedagogical tools, games address some student needs better than others. And, of course, that not all games address the same type of developmental tasks, just as all texts, A/V materials, classroom techniques do not address the same tasks. The computer/radio analogy is a good one. Expecting computers and/or games to replace some other educational and entertainment resource is missing the point - they are their own thing.
  • Brett Boessen on 21 Oct 10
     
    Ed, I feel like such a set of points might already exist and/or have been publicly expressed by game critics/designers, especially from the serious games side of things. But that shouldn't stop us from discussing whether they might be in need of update/reworking/extension. :) I'm interested -- could/should we try to look at some existing texts/posts and then come together in a conference call or something?
  • Ed Webb on 21 Oct 10
     
    I'm thinking something specific to liberal arts educators. We could brainstorm with an etherpad clone (e.g. ietherpad.com) or asynchronously via a google doc.
  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Oct 10
     
    Ed, would you object if I took that Bloom's approach in a forthcoming paper? "augment those games with other content that they don't cover (as others do with inadequate texts)" - nicely said, Brett.
  • Ed Webb on 26 Oct 10
     
    Go for it, Bryan. If you want to kick ideas around, let me know.
  • Bryan Alexander on 26 Oct 10
     
    Will certainly do.
Ed Webb

Video game watchdog shuts down, victim of economy - Yahoo! News - 2 views

news.yahoo.com/...us_video_game_watchdog

watchdog censorship video games gaming

shared by Ed Webb on 19 Dec 09 - Cached
  • National Institute on Media and the Family
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Dec 09
     
    I'm surprised nobody stepped forward to support this group. Surely conservative family groups would back this?
  • Ed Webb on 22 Dec 09
     
    I know, right? Perhaps their work is done.
Bryan Alexander

"Flight to Freedom" - 1 views

www.mission-us.org/...landing-mission-2

game simulation history

shared by Bryan Alexander on 19 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Feb 15
     
    Funding for Mission US provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Educational outreach support provided by The Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation and Atran Foundation.
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