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Comment on Creativity and Data-Driven Assessment are Not Contradictory by Gamefication? Or is it Gamefuscation? | Video Games As Learning Tools

Gamefication? Or is it Gamefuscation? | Video Games As Learning Tools — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:49:12 +0000

[...] we look at game based learning, we should be asking what it does best, not whether it is better. Games can become a type of assessment where contextual knowledge is demonstrated. But we need to go …I have a post about this topic myself (filed under: shameless self-promotion but maybe someone will [...]

Comment on Serious Game Design and Learning Assessment –Leaving Las Vegas by Gamefication? Or is it Gamefuscation? | Video Games As Learning Tools

Gamefication? Or is it Gamefuscation? | Video Games As Learning Tools — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:56 +0000

[...] is effectiveness. We should be asking how learning in game-like contexts enhances learning and how to measure that. Testing is often an assessment of crystallized knowledge–does the learner have a chunked [...]

Comment on A taxonomy of play by Creativity and Data-Driven Assessment are Not Contradictory | Video Games As Learning Tools

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:43:33 +0000

[...] is the greatest form of flattery. It is also one of the ways we learn. In the tradition of play research, mimesis is a dramatic form of role-play. Aristotle held that it was “simulated [...]

Comment on Serious Game Design and Learning Assessment –Leaving Las Vegas by Creativity and Data-Driven Assessment are Not Contradictory | Video Games As Learning Tools

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:25:35 +0000

[...] designers, and assessment developers do not understand how to use criteria; understand informative assessments; to make and use rubrics and scales for assessment and evaluation by embedding the crystallized, [...]

Comment on Creativity and Data-Driven Assessment are Not Contradictory by Johnny Ronelus

Johnny Ronelus — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:25:41 +0000

Great article! I totally agree with you in regards to the creative process of teaching and learning. The idea is to never lose our focus of content and concept mastery.

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Stereotype Threat and the American Teacher | Video Games As Learning Tools — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:37:07 +0000

[...] to Dubbels (2009), formal learning seems to necessitate trust and identity. For Deci and Ryan (2002) the focus comes [...]

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Stereotype Threat and the American Teacher | Video Games As Learning Tools — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:36:36 +0000

[...] with a high incidence of suspension and classroom referrals to the administrators. In one instance, I was the fifth teacher that had attempted to offer instruction to a classroom. It was not until [...]

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Tue, 24 May 2011 15:33:36 +0000

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Comment on Reading Achievement Using Video Games by Brock Dubbels : « Using video games to improve reading » » Ceci est un jeu

Brock Dubbels : « Using video games to improve reading » » Ceci est un jeu — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:08:32 +0000

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Comment on Reading comprehension as a transmedial (sub-medial) trait. by Reading Achievement Using Video Games | Video Games As Learning Tools

Reading Achievement Using Video Games | Video Games As Learning Tools — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:56:52 +0000

[...] thinking skills with video games and television, where they didn’t with printed text. This was also found in a previous study. What the games offered was a more accessible narrative that I could use to develop their potential [...]