Game-Based Learning to Teach and Assess 21st Century Skills

Game-Based Learning, and particularly serious games that teach content, are fast becoming utilized in the classroom. Frequent success stories are appearing, from Minecraft in the elementary classroom to games that teach civics. There is curriculum that pairs World of Warcraft with language arts standards, and many other variations where the gaming focus is on content. What about 21st-century skills? Yes, games can be used to teach and assess 21st-century skills! Collaboration MMOs are hugely popular. Communication All of the games above, which require collaboration, also require communication. Critical Thinking/Problem-Solving Well-designed games require players to solve a variety of complex problems, some of which require standards-aligned learning and some that simply require general critical thinking and problem-solving. We must find time for students to play these games in and out of the class to teach content and 21st-century skills.

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Clark Aldrich Designs: Using Serious Games and Simulations: A Quick and Dirty Guide In This Post: Learn what simulations are and aren’t.Understanding where they fit in an organizations’ flow of skills.Learn best practices in designing and creating sims. A good educational simulation may look a lot like a casual computer game. It may have stylized, fast moving graphics. There may be a timer during some part of a level, and exaggerated consequences of failure. This has led to a lot of people to erroneously conclude that the primary point of sims is to "make content enjoyable" often (a skeptic may further and logically intuit) at the expense of depth and flexibility while increasing of cost of production and time to “play.” Rather, the necessary goal of a well-designed sim-based program is to develop in the student a deep, flexible, intuitive, kinesthetic understanding of the subject matter. As a result, students who learn via simulation can improvise better in the real world. Forcing Repetition Sims in the Context of the Flow of Enterprise Skills Figure: The Flow of Skills

Easy General Knowledge Quiz Questions and Answers Easy General Knowledge Quiz Questions Copy and paste the very easy general knowledge quiz questions and answers below and use them in your own fun quiz. Go on, help yourself, they're free! 1. © Copyright 2009 - 2014 Quiz Pub UK 6 Ways Gamification Is Being Used Right Now In an unplanned series of sorts, we’re showcasing a couple of posts about the 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education . We’ve already talked about the key trends in the report and some challenges we face in implementing education technology , so we’re ready to take a look at the six technologies highlighted in the report as being game-changers for education. We’ve already looked at MOOCs and tablet computing. Educational Games and gamification were identified as part of the ‘second horizon’, (or entering mainstream use in a two to three years). Gamification is not a new topic for us at Edudemic , though it is definitely a concept that only a small percentage of teachers out there are actually using. Global Social Problems The Global Social Problems, Local Action & Social Networks for Change project at St. Open Orchestra Queen’s University “Exergames” Social Media Innovation Quest The University of Bahia’s Games and Education

Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century © 2004 Joel Foreman, James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 50–66. Joel Foreman Joel Foreman is an Associate Professor in the English Department at George Mason University. Not long after he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Mike Van Lent used his interest in videogames and artificial intelligence to land a research professorship at the University of Southern California (USC). Herein lies a moral about how videogames (arguably one of the most sophisticated forms of information technology to date) are influencing higher education. We discussed the following six topics: I spoke with each of the five individually, culled their comments from several hours of recordings, and then combined the comments to simulate the continuity and interaction of a group discussion. "One Tape Recorder Talking to Another" Foreman: What is wrong with the current instructional model? "Worlds in a Box"

New Web App Gamifies Your Classroom With Text Messages When you hear the term ‘texting’ you probably cringe a bit. Or you think about texting while driving. Or maybe even how students will sneak texting in below their desks while a teacher isn’t looking. That’s not the case for 8th graders at Roosevelt Middle School in Bridgeport CT. Each positive behavior earns the students points, but they can also lose points for inappropriate behavior like talking out of turn or neglecting their school work. “It’s amazing to see the kids so enthusiastic about their behavior. StudentPositive plans to roll out a number of similar features over the coming months — all geared toward engaging students, empowering teachers, and improving school culture.