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The James Paul Gee Learning Games Awards were created in 2020 to apply Gee's theories to the identification and judging of learning game design. Gee's book is used in Kimon Keramidas' [9] argument explaining the learning processes of gamers. Some of the schema and elements that are used in game designing can be analogously used as "frameworks ...
The games and learning research world studies how new digital media tools shift the topic of education research from recalling and repeating information to being able to find it, evaluate it and use it compellingly at the right time and in the right context. Games and learning research explores how games and game communities can lead to 21st ...
This is a list of notable educational video games. There is some overlap between educational games and interactive CD-ROMs and other programs (based on player agency), and between educational games and related genres like simulations and interactive storybooks (based on how much gameplay is devoted to education). This list aims to list games ...
A VTech educational video game. An educational video game is a video game that provides learning or training value to the player. Edutainment describes an intentional merger of video games and educational software into a single product (and could therefore also comprise more serious titles sometimes described under children's learning software).
A Brief History of Video Games: From Atari to Xbox One (ISBN 978-1472118806) by Richard Stanton (2015). A Brief History of Video Games covers a lot of games and a lot of stories spanning many decades. (Polygon) The Golden Age of Video Games: the Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry (ISBN 978-1-4398-7323-6) by Roberto Dillon
Game-based learning (GBL) is a type of game play that has defined learning outcomes. Generally, game-based learning is designed to balance subject matter with gameplay and the ability of the player to retain, and apply said subject matter to the real world. [4] Children tend to spend hours playing hide and seek, learning the steps of digital ...
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern. Basic Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-465-00910-7. The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution. Walker Publishing Co. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8027-7812-3. Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning. A K Peters. 2011.
Gee condenses and clusters these principles even more closely in an article [15] following the publication of his video games and learning book. Gee believes good education involves “applying the fruitful principles of learning that good game designers have hit on, whether or not we use a game as a carrier of these principles" (p. 6).