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Hopper, Susan B. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
simSchool is a game-based, virtual, and interactive tool that allows pre-service teachers to acquire new skills while constructing knowledge through experimentation with learning situations. Pre-service teachers develop know-how--or heuristic knowledge--through repeated practice in the "Personality Plus Higher-Order Thinking" module to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
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Young, William, II; Franklin, Teresa; Cooper, Tessa; Carroll, Stephen; Liu, Chang – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
In an age of technological advancement, video games have been found to be effective teaching aids in middle school science classrooms. A National Science Foundation (NSF) project at Ohio University, known as STEAM, (Science and Technology Enrichment for Appalachian Middle Schoolers), has examined Second Life as a curriculum aid through the design,…
Descriptors: Video Games, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science, Educational Games