De los Vjs al currículo escolar. Infografía GF de la educación. Learning to Play or Playing to Learn - A Critical Account of the Models of Communication Informing Educational Research on Computer Gameplay. By Hans Christian Arnseth Introduction The proliferation of networked computers, gaming consoles such as the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo Gamecube and handheld devices such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, have made computer gaming part of mainstream culture.
This has also resulted in a renewed interest in this topic among educational researchers. In any case, the fact that computer games have become a major industry means that in many people’s lives computer gameplay features as a very pleasurable and entertaining, but also at times frustrating and challenging, activity. However, the pleasures and rewards of gaming are very much mediated by social relationships in and around games, and both their representational and ludic aspects get their significance through their embeddedness within specific gaming communities and cultures (e.g. It is primarily the positive aspects attributed to games that are relevant here. Learning to Play or Playing to Learn. Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, andSupporting Games Education. Moving Learning Games Forward. Top 10 Education Gamification Examples that will Change our Future.
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Check out my post What is Gamification & my Gamification Framework: Octalysis Education Gamification in Action. There’s a lot of potential in the field of Education Gamification. I believe that humans have an innate Desire to learn. However, much of the school system these days “gets in the way of our education.” If you ask children, “What is work?” Clearly there should be a way to help kids learn from what they do best – play. No longer viewed as a mundane process for presenting information while testing for retention and understanding, the modern educational challenge involves tasks of engaging students, stimulating their interests, retaining their attention, and maintaining a positive attitude in a nurturing environment.
Key to these goals is the effort to maintain a rich communications environment that encourages feedback and reinforcement, not only between the instructor/teacher and students, but also between the students themselves. What about you? Transformational Play: Why Educators Should Care About Games. Video Games in Education.
Video Games in Education Educational video games are sometimes referred to as ‘edutainment’ in the industry.
Experts believe that these games make learning fun by using entertainment as an educational tool. These games take a specific type of learning or topic and build a game around that topic. For example, kids might learn math by playing a flying game. The hope is that the child will have fun and forget that they’re learning, but still maintain the knowledge they pick up while playing. Children’s educational games differ from adult games of the same type because they’re typically more basic and cover fewer concepts. There are different types of games available: those that are played online, those on a computer, and those on a handheld device. More and more educational video games are now appearing on the computer and Internet.