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Terrell K. Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Makerspaces can support educational experiences in prototyping for young learners, while physical computing platforms enable high levels of creativity and expression. However, each of these have high barriers of entry, especially for youth without prior experience. Commercial microcontrollers have become a popular tool to use when designing both…
Descriptors: Design, Internet, Simulated Environment, Cooperation
Taylor, T. L. – American Journal of Play, 2018
In this excerpt from the author's new book, "Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming," (Princeton University Press, 2018), she discusses some of the work game live streamers undertake to convert their private play into public entertainment. She details the layers involved in a typical broadcast and argues that this…
Descriptors: Play, Video Games, Internet, Video Technology
Remmele, Bernd – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2017
The paper first outlines a differentiation of play/game-motivations that include "negative" attitudes against the play/game itself like cheating or spoilsporting. This problem is of particular importance in concern of learning games because they are not "played" for themselves--at least in the first place--but due to an…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Games, Student Motivation, Negative Attitudes
Abrams, Sandra Schamroth; Rowsell, Jennifer; Merchant, Guy – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Research into digital practices and cultures repeatedly calls attention to the complexity of communication spaces and meaning-making practices. With the blurring of boundaries between online and offline, these entangled practices involve the interweaving of human, material, semiotic, and discursive practices. Purpose: This introductory…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Video Games, Play
Tornqvist, Dominicus – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2014
There is a kind of seemingly nonsensical play behavior found in the simulation sandbox game genre. This behavior is very spontaneous and impulsive and associated with self-initiated learning, and here the author seeks to better understand what it is, and why it seems associated with simulation sandbox games. That is: What purpose does it serve,…
Descriptors: Play, Computer Simulation, Motivation, Teaching Methods
Lukosch, Heide; Groen, Daan; Kurapati, Shalini; Klemke, Roland; Verbraeck, Alexander – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today's complex working environments, it is often difficult to develop the required level of understanding of a given situation, described as situational awareness. A container…
Descriptors: Performance, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Games
Kara, Nuri; Aydin, Cansu Cigdem; Cagiltay, Kursat – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This article introduces StoryTech, a smart storytelling toy that offers children a mixed reality environment in which to tell imaginative stories. During usability testing, an empirical study was carried out with 90 child participants. The findings indicated that StoryTech creates a rich storytelling experience, especially for ages five and six.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Toys, Educational Technology, Blended Learning
Adams, Deanne M.; Pilegard, Celeste; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
Learning physics often requires overcoming common misconceptions based on naïve interpretations of observations in the everyday world. One proposed way to help learners build appropriate physics intuitions is to expose them to computer simulations in which motion is based on Newtonian principles. In addition, playing video games that require…
Descriptors: Video Games, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Simulated Environment
Black, Rebecca W.; Korobkova, Ksenia; Epler, Alexandra – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
This paper examines the ways in which Mattel's "Barbie Girls" and "Xtractaurs," online sites aimed at girls and boys of six years of age and up, respectively, offer markedly distinct literate and semiotic resources for their young users. Analysis focuses on the multimodal layers of meaning and the mediating tools,…
Descriptors: Play, Interaction, Content Analysis, Web Sites
Graham, Kerrie Lewis – American Journal of Play, 2010
Millions of children and adults devote much of their leisure time to playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Most observers commonly categorize computer games as a play activity, but this article asks whether MMORPGs contain activities that might not be play. The author examines the phenomenon of online gaming and…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Role Playing, Play
Kramer, Steven H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Despite the speed at which Second Life has been adopted by universities and schools to teach courses, little educational research and theory addresses this multiplayer online "world." This case study explored undergraduate university instructors' teaching methods and tools within a virtual environment. It also considered whether instructors are…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Teaching Methods, Play, Educational Research
"World of Warcraft" and the Impact of Game Culture and "Play" in an Undergraduate Game Design Course
Dickey, Michele D. – Computers & Education, 2011
During the past two decades, digital games have become an increasingly popular source of study for academics, educational researchers and instructional designers. Much has been written about the potential of games for teaching and learning, both in the design of educational/serious games and the implementation of off-the-shelf games for learning.…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Play, Educational Games, Classroom Environment
Siyahhan, Sinem; Barab, Sasha A.; Downton, Michael P. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2010
We implemented a five-week family program called "Family Quest" where parents and children ages 9 to 13 played Quest Atlantis, a multiuser 3D educational computer game, at a local after-school club for 90-minute sessions. We used activity theory as a conceptual and an analytical framework to study the nature of intergenerational play, the…
Descriptors: Play, Intergenerational Programs, Family Programs, Parent Child Relationship
Savin-Baden, Maggi – London Review of Education, 2010
This paper presents a study that used narrative inquiry to explore staff experiences of learning and teaching in immersive worlds. The findings introduced issues relating to identity play, the relationship between pedagogy and play and the ways in which learning, play and fun were managed (or not). At the same time there was a sense of imposed or…
Descriptors: Play, Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept, Values
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers