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Kingsley, Tara L.; Grabner-Hagen, Melissa M. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Gamification uses game elements such as quests, challenges, levels, and rewards to motivate and engage students in the classroom. Given the engagement that students feel during gameplay, it is sensible to include elements of game design to motivate students and create a space for comprehensive vocabulary instruction. Designing a gamified…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Game Theory, Curriculum Design
Masek, Martin; Murcia, Karen; Morrison, Jason; Newhouse, Paul; Hackling, Mark – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Transformational games are digital computer and video applications purposefully designed to create engaging and immersive learning environments for delivering specified learning goals, outcomes and experiences. The virtual world of a transformational game becomes the social environment within which learning occurs as an outcome of the complex…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Video Technology, Computer Games, Scientific Principles