Posts Tagged ‘game-based learning’
Experimental benefits of GBL?
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 3, 2012
by mollyali I do not know any academic or well-informed individual who can read the claims of most experimental (or quasi-experimental) studies and agree wholeheartedly with them. Typically in these studies, one factor is withheld from one group but applied in another. I am a proponent of game-based learning approaches, but I cannot help but [...]
Games for brains
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 26, 2011
Video source Tom Chatfield outlined seven ways video games engage the brain. You need to fast forward to the 8min 40sec mark before any of the seven are mentioned! Having experience bars for measuring progress Offering multiple long and short-term gains Rewarding effort Providing feedback that is rapid, frequent and clear Including elements of uncertainty [...]
How games make kids smarter
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 20, 2011
I am still coming down from the high I got from presenting at TEDxYouthSingapore yesterday. I’ll reflect on that later. In the meantime, I discovered a TED video via a tweet: Today’s #TED: Gabe Zichermann gives you a prescription to play video games: on.ted.com/GZichermann #TEDx— TEDTalks Updates (@tedtalks) November 19, 2011 The proper URL to [...]
Productive failure
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 10, 2011
by Sixth Lie One of the things that invariably emerges from any video game-based learning session I facilitate is the importance of failure in gaming. In traditional instruction and testing, failure is demoralizing and even stigmatizing (if you are labelled stupid). A consequence of traditional instruction is something like this: If you fail to learn, you learn [...]
Testing times, playing times
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2011
by dieselbug2007 I read this NYT article and I loved this response by Cathy Davidson. One of the main ideas of the NYT article was that the push to adopt various technologies was not leading to higher test scores. One of Davidson’s responses was that we should not be integrating technology to raise test scores but to promote meaningful [...]
Gamers, gaming today and tomorrow
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 29, 2011
Video source I tweeted this resource last week and have shared it with my ICT class as we prepare for sessions on game-based learning. Gamers Today Are More Social Than You'd Think, readwriteweb.com/archives/gamer…— Ashley Tan (@ashley) August 24, 2011 The video is not about game-based learning. Instead, its focus is on the gamers of today [...]
Spent
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 20, 2011
Thanks to FreeTechnologyForTeachers, I have discovered Spent. This is a game that I might introduce to my ICT class during the game-based learning portion of our course. In one game station, I normally get my student teachers to experience the McVideo game and Dafur is Dying. I might either replace one of these games or include [...]
Angry Birds for learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 11, 2011
Many thanks to Yeu Ann for sharing this video with me. Video source Ah, Angry Birds. The game that stayed at the top of the Apple Apps Store chart for about 9 months. The game that spawned plush toys, mobile device covers, food products, etc. Now the creative people behind the T-mobile ads have leveraged [...]
Falling forward
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 23, 2011
I am not an alum of U Penn, but it blipped twice on my radar last week. The first reason was its 60-second lectures as highlighted at FreeTechForTeachers. There is some good stuff there that shows how lectures do not need that much time to be effective. The second was Denzel Washington’s commencement speech at U [...]
Delayed impact
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 12, 2011
I think that most educators become educators not for short-term gain but for long term impact. We realize that our impact is often not felt next week, next month or even next year. Our impact is also mediated by many other factors, so if something good were to result from a move on our part, we [...]
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