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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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G. Puttick; M. Cassidy; E. Tucker-Raymond; G. M. Troiano; C. Harteveld – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Much research attention has been focused on learning through game playing. However, very little has been focused on student learning through game making, especially in science. Moreover, none of the studies on learning through making games has presented an account of how students engage in the process of game design in real time. The present study…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Games, Peer Teaching, Science Education
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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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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Richard, Gabriela T.; Giri, Sagun – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
This article proposes and explores the kinds of computational thinking, creative practices, design activities, and inclusive learning opportunities provided to diverse high school youth when designing integrated systems through simultaneously physically and digitally responsive wearable games and systems. Previous work in this area, conducted by…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Creativity
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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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Clark, Douglas B.; Sengupta, Pratim – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This paper situates a critical review of studies that we have conducted within the broader research literature to analyze the affordances of integrating modeling within disciplinarily-integrated games from computational thinking and science as practice perspectives. Across the studies, the analyses pursue two themes: (a) the role of agent-based…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Thinking Skills, Computer Games, 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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Bartholomew, Scott R.; Zhang, Liwei – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2019
Although there are over 320,000 health and fitness apps available on major app stores, there is scant evidence that they actually promote a healthier lifestyle, assist users in exercising, or promote weight loss. This article presents a lesson plan using an Arduino for integrating computational thinking and game design with middle school students…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Engineering Education, Relevance (Education), Physical Fitness
DeVane, Ben; Steward, Cody; Tran, Kelly M. – Educational Technology, 2016
This article reports on a project that used a game-creation tool to introduce middle-school students ages 10 to 13 to problem-solving strategies similar to those in computer science through the lens of studio-based design arts. Drawing on historic paradigms in design pedagogy and contemporary educational approaches in the digital arts to teach…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Design, Problem Solving, Computer Science
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Smith, Hannah; Closser, Avery H.; Ottmar, Erin; Arroyo, Ivon – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2020
The Game Play and Design Framework is a project-based instructional method to engage teachers and students with mathematics content by utilizing technology as a vehicle for game play and creation. In the authors' prior work, they created a technology tool and game editing platform, the Wearable Learning Cloud Platform (WLCP), which enables…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Knowledge Level
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Green, Lucy Santos – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
In this mixed-methods study, we examined if students benefitted from a game design course offered during an enrichment hour in terms of gains in their system analysis and design skills. Students at a rural middle school in Southeast US (n = 19) attended a 1-hour game design course offered weekly during an academic enrichment class period, for the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Computer Games, Design, Rural Schools
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Ke, Fengfeng; Im, Tami – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2014
This case study examined team-based computer-game design efforts by children with diverse abilities to explore the nature of their collective design actions and cognitive processes. Ten teams of middle-school children, with a high percentage of minority students, participated in a 6-weeks, computer-assisted math-game-design program. Essential…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Games, Design, Middle School Students
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Denner, Jill; Werner, Linda; Campe, Shannon; Ortiz, Eloy – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2014
Despite the growing popularity of teaching children to program games, little is known about the benefits for learning. In this article, the authors propose that game mechanics can be used as a window into how the children are thinking and describe a strategy for using them to analyze students' games. The study involved sixty 10-14 year old…
Descriptors: Programming, Educational Games, Early Adolescents, Coding
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