Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In his book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, James Paul Gee talks about the application and principles of digital learning. Gee has focused on the learning principles in video games and how these learning principles can be applied to the K-12 classroom. Successful video games are good at challenging players.
The gamification of learning is an educational approach that seeks to motivate students by using video game design and game elements in learning environments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The goal is to maximize enjoyment and engagement by capturing the interest of learners and inspiring them to continue learning. [ 3 ]
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 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 ...
Fantasy (Game as make-believe): Imaginary world. Narrative (Game as drama): A story that drives the player to keep coming back; Challenge (Game as obstacle course): Urge to master something. Boosts a game's replayability. Fellowship (Game as social framework): A community where the player is an active part of it. Almost exclusive for ...
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game_based_learning&oldid=496840169"
The most publicly known application of machine learning in games is likely the use of deep learning agents that compete with professional human players in complex strategy games. There has been a significant application of machine learning on games such as Atari/ALE, Doom, Minecraft, StarCraft, and car racing. [1]
Man, Play and Games (ISBN 0029052009) is the influential 1961 book by the French sociologist Roger Caillois (French: Les jeux et les hommes, 1958) on the sociology of play and games or, in Caillois' terms, sociology derived from play. Caillois interprets many social structures as elaborate forms of games and much behaviour as a form of play.