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Avvisati, Francesco; Borgonovi, Francesca – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Written instructions seldom need to be read when playing videogames. Instead, gaming often involves early information foraging and expansive exploration behaviors. We use data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to explore whether students who regularly play videogames (daily gamers) adopt behaviors that are typical of…
Descriptors: Video Games, Science Process Skills, Problem Solving, Discovery Learning
Scolari, Carlos A.; Contreras-Espinosa, Ruth S. – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
The main objective of this article is to analyse informal learning processes in the field of video games. As many teenagers are engaged in these kinds of practices, the big question is: How do teens learn to play video games? In most cases they do not learn to play video games at school or with their parents, and therefore it is necessary to map…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Strategies, Informal Education, Experiential Learning
Albuquerque Mendes, Beatriz Dixo Sousa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research investigates the responses of three individuals engaging with the Super Mario World (SMW) platform videogame glitches, and how they learned to solve the problem without formal help. This investigation was chosen because it explores connections between media literacy, critical thinking, and play in adults in the context of responding…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Software, Error Correction, Problem Solving
Danby, Susan; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita; Melander, Helen; Aarsand, Pål – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Collaboration is an important aspect of social activity associated with young children's digital gameplay. Children organise their participation as they communicate with and support one another, through sharing knowledge and problem-solving strategies, displaying their expertise, encouraging others and creatively exploring possibilities for…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Video Games, Young Children, Play
Adachi, Paul J. C.; Willoughby, Teena – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Some researchers have proposed that video games possess good learning principles and may promote problem solving skills. Empirical research regarding this relationship, however, is limited. The goal of the presented study was to examine whether strategic video game play (i.e., role playing and strategy games) predicted self-reported problem…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Adolescents, Play, Problem Solving
Blumberg, Fran C.; Randall, John D. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2013
We examined the problem-solving behaviors that 5th, 6th, and 7th graders used to negotiate a novel recreational video game. Students were characterized as frequent or infrequent players and instructed to think aloud during game play for 20 consecutive minutes. Comments were used to make inferences about the students' problem-solving behaviors…
Descriptors: Play, Problem Solving, Inferences, Video Games
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
Kooiman, Brian J.; Kim, Heeja; Li, Wenling; Wesolek, Michael – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2013
Video games may seem an odd place to find Common Core State Standard implementation strategies. A closer look reveals that educational principles found in certain video game genres might help update instructional strategies that no longer engage contemporary learners. These video game strategies can explain why learners will spend hours playing…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Video Games, Play, Cooperative Learning
Ziaeehezarjeribi, Yadi – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study, based on experiential play methodology was used to explore student engagement while playing "Medal of Honor (2002)" and "Call of Duty (2003)". It identifies some of the key issues related to the use of video games and simulations during the training phase of game play. Research into the effects of gaming in education has been extremely…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Play, Video Games, Learning Strategies
Gee, James Paul – American Journal of Play, 2008
The author builds on arguments he has made elsewhere that good commercial video games foster deep learning and problem solving and that such games in fact promote mastery as a form of play. Here he maintains that some good video games engage players with an important type of play, namely of play as discovery, of play as surmising new possibilities…
Descriptors: Video Games, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Problem Solving
Satwicz, Tom; Stevens, Reed – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2008
This paper describes the use of quantities in video games by young people as part of a broader effort to understand thinking and learning across naturally occurring contexts of activity. Our approach to investigating the use of quantities in game play is ethnographic; we have followed eight children over a six-month period as they play their own…
Descriptors: Play, Video Games, Children, Interviews