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Kai-Lin Yang; Chia-Yang Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Game-based learning, which includes non-digital and digital games, highlights the benefits of games in terms of players' learning and engagement. Whereas contemporary research focuses more on digital than non-digital game-based learning, more studies shall compare the effects between the two types of game-based learning and their integration. This…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Spatial Ability, Grade 5
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Jaakko Hilppö; Reed Stevens – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
Choice and autonomy are central tenets of interest-driven learning. Yet, in most studies on interest in school, students' choice and autonomy have been confined within the boundaries of the curriculum and the subject matter in question. This limits our understanding of how schools can support interest-driven learning as well as students' interest…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, STEM Education, Art Education, Grade 6
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Ibrahim Bozan; Erdal Taslidere – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Coding and digital game design activities have been used in recent years to contribute to students' academic achievement and twenty-first century skills. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the 5E model enriched with coding and digital game design activities (5EECD) on gifted students' academic achievement and problem-solving skills. A…
Descriptors: Models, Coding, Computer Games, Educational Games
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Guner-Ozer, Mediha; Belet Boyaci, S. Dilek; Özer, Fatih – International Technology and Education Journal, 2022
The present study aimed to discuss the development of an educational digital game for Turkish language instruction as a second language to foreign primary school students. First, the correlation between digital games and education was discussed, the learning and motivational theories fundamental to the educational digital games were investigated,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Ayman Alzaid – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As computer games become integral to students' learning experiences, this dissertation investigates the impact of educational game-based learning on mathematical outcomes and attitudes among elementary school students. Employing data science techniques, including statistical approaches and quantitative analysis through data mining of gameplay data…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Outcomes of Education, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction
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O'Grady-Jones, Mary; Grant, Michael M. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
The purpose of this research was to describe the impact of digital game building on fourth grade gifted and talented students' problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration skills. Increasingly, there has been a call to involve students in real-world experiences through projects that explore authentic issues using technology. Game design-based…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Computer Games, Educational Games
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Moyer-Packenham, Patricia; Ashby, M. Jill; Lister, Kristy; Roxburgh, Allison; Kozlowski, Joseph S. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2020
This study examined children's learning when they played 12 digital math games to understand how design features promoted children's awareness of the affordances in the games, and how this contributed to their learning. Elementary-aged children (N=193) played three digital math games during 60-minute interviews. We collected quantitative (pre-post…
Descriptors: Affordances, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Rahmadi, Imam Fitri; Lavicza, Zsolt; Houghton, Tony – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
Educational games have great potential for learning, however the potential of user-generated microgames for supporting learning is still not completely understood. The present study reviews the design quality of user-generated microgames based on microgame design fundamentals and explores the potential of the games for facilitating learning from…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Design, Elementary School Teachers
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Hacioglu, Yasemin; Dönmez Usta, Necla – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
The purpose of this study is to design a digital game design-based STEM activity for fifth-grade students learning about endangered organisms and significance of biodiversity for living. This activity was carried out with twenty students in a public school in Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey during academic year of 2018-2019 spring term. This…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Public Schools
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Tucker-Raymond, Eli; Puttick, Gillian; Cassidy, Michael; Harteveld, Casper; Troiano, Giovanni M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2019
There have been increasing calls for integrating computational thinking and computing into school science, mathematics, and engineering classrooms. The learning goals of the curriculum in this study included learning about both computational thinking and climate science. Including computer science in science classrooms also means a shift in the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Environmental Education, Science Education
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Dohn, Niels Bonderup – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The ability to code computer programs is considered an important part of literacy in today's society. This paper reports from a case study in two sixth-grade classes where Scratch coding was part of six mathematics lessons. The aim of the study was to investigate how Scratch coding affected students' interest development in coding and in…
Descriptors: Coding, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Interests
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Gürbüz, Hasan; Evlioglu, Bengisu; Erol, Çigdem Selçukcan; Gülseçen, Hulusi; Gülseçen, Sevinç – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Computer-based games as developments in information technology seem to grow and spread rapidly. Using of these games by children and teenagers have increased. The presence of more beneficial and educational games in contrast to the violent and harmful games is remarkable. Many scientific studies have indicated that the useful (functional) games…
Descriptors: Weather, Computer Games, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
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Kukul, Volkan; Çakir, Recep – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2020
Computational thinking (CT) has become a skill that is taught starting from an early age with its increasing popularity. In addition, the opinion that CT is related to other 21st century skills finds its place in the literature. The main purpose of this study is to identify the contributions of scaffolding-based game programming activities to…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, 21st Century Skills, Skill Development, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Vungthong, Sompatu – rEFLections, 2018
The 21st century marks the digital era which is characterised by advanced technology and witnesses the increasing use of visual design in the realm of education. Despite various studies addressing the roles of visual design, there is still limited understanding of its roles in electronic educational materials, especially for language learning and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Allsop, Yasemin – Online Submission, 2019
This thesis examines children's thinking, learning and metacognition when designing their own computer games. The study aims to understand more about what kind of learning takes place, and how it emerges whilst children are authoring their own computer games. The aim is to get an insight into the cognitive processes students exercise that…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Thinking Skills, Metacognition, Learning Processes
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