Game-based Learning
Authors Sites & Recommended Books
- Marc Prenksy's Site (His Book on Digital Game Based Learning)
- Alessi & Trollip (Multimedia for Learning)
- Clark Aldrich
- Michael Allen
- James Paul Gee
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
(A book that can help educators understand the potential value for video games as a media approach for teaching)
- Discussed the 36 principles of learning
- Chapter 2 (Example Pikiman): Addresses situated & social learning; connected learning; culture; internal design of grammar; the semiotic domains; critical learning (p.39);
- Chapter 3 (Example Acanum): Learning & Identity - Learners learn about consequences (potential awareness) as they take on the role of other identities; input>output achievement (p.67); experiential learning & a lot of drawn interactions. "Passive learning - rather than active, critical learning - will not lead to much power & empowerment in the contemporary world" (Gee, 2003): Situated meaning & Learning (p74)
- Chapter 4 (Example Deus Ex - RPG) Situated learning: The cycle --->Player first probes -> hypothesize -> re-probes -> rethinks again based on the experiments
- Chapter 5 (Example Lara Croft from Tomb Raider & System Shock 2) Telling and Doing; Discovery learning; transfer of learning principle; learning hierarchies; adaptation to new or accidental discoveries; [this reminds me of Gagne learning hierarchies; Information processing theories; and Garner's theory of MI - View my writings]
- Chapter 6 Cultural Models (example Sonic the Hedgehog). Learning about others extending to the other worlds. Related also to semeotic learning.
- Chapter 7 The Social mind. The player as the learner, teacher & producer (p.197). Sharing.
- Richard Van Eck (Instructional Design and Gaming)
- Diana Oblinger (understanding the Net Generation)
- Kurt Squire - Researcher on Gaming
- Hirumi
- ESA research links ("a summary of academic research and scholarly works related to the computer and video game industry.")
Blogs
Journals & Research Organizations
Educational Games/Simulations
Supporting Theories (Author's personal Log which relates to Gaming theories)
Gaming Stats
Misc
Last updated:
September 3, 2008