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Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Democracy & Education, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Political Science, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
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Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Grantee Submission, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Political Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods
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Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Derek Behnke; David Shaffer; Codu Marquart; M. Shane Tutweiler; Jason Chen – Grantee Submission, 2022
In this paper, we describe the design for PurpleState, an internship simulation that applies the epistemic game model for informed civic learning. PurpleState places students in the role of interns at a political media firm and asks them to design a media campaign on a state level policy issue. Unlike the use of these models in STEM education,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
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Johnson, Christopher D. L. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2018
The advent of relatively inexpensive 360-degree cameras and virtual reality (VR) headsets brings new possibilities to the study of religion by allowing students to become virtually immersed in distant religious environments at very little cost. These tools can serve as the basis for assignments that help to engage students and meet core learning…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Computer Simulation, Video Technology, Assignments
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Hati, Sanchita; Bhattacharyya, Sudeep – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
A project-based biophysical chemistry laboratory course, which is offered to the biochemistry and molecular biology majors in their senior year, is described. In this course, the classroom study of the structure-function of biomolecules is integrated with the discovery-guided laboratory study of these molecules using computer modeling and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Active Learning, Student Projects, Laboratory Training
Fox, Christine; Jones, Rachel – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2019
The advent of new technologies and increased access to robust connectivity is reshaping the K-12 landscape for teaching and learning. School districts nationwide are leveraging digital instructional materials and resources to deliver transformative and impactful personalized learning opportunities for students and to enhance the administrative…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Internet, Academic Achievement, Technology Uses in Education
Baek, Youngkyun; Whitton, Nicola – IGI Global, 2013
In K-12 classrooms, as well as on the college and university level, the incorporation of digital games has played a vital role in the educational system. While introducing teachers to new fields, these digital games have been designed and implemented for the classroom and have shown positive results at a variety of educational levels. Cases on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Jecklin, Robert – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2010
Young and healthy undergraduates in health education were not predisposed to learn the complex sprawl of topics in a required course on U.S. Health Care. An online simulation of health care reform was used to encourage student learning about health care and participating in health care reform. Students applied their understanding of high costs,…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Electronic Publishing, Health Education, Formative Evaluation
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Mathews, James M. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
The article presents a brief overview of the Neighbourhood Game Design Project, a studio-based curriculum intervention aimed at engaging students in the design of place-based mobile games and interactive stories using geo-locative technologies (for example, GPS enabled cell phones). It describes the three curricular components that defined the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Design, Curriculum Implementation
Young, Gail A; Schug, Mark C. – Southern Social Studies Quarterly, 1990
Reports the results of a survey of Wisconsin secondary social studies teachers designed to answer the question: To what extent do teachers use simulations? Describes the study designed to replicate an earlier survey of Ohio teachers in 1979 by J.J. Blaga. Compares the results of the two surveys. Concludes simulation use has increased. (RW)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Secondary Education, Simulation, Social Studies
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Beckett, Kelly L.; Shaffer, David Williamson – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
In this article, we present a study focused on developing students' understanding of the ecology through participation in a technology-supported urban planning simulation--specifically, 11 high school students in Madison, Wisconsin acted as urban planners to redesign a local shopping street using a Geographic Information System (GIS) model. This…
Descriptors: Urban Planning, Ecology, High School Students, Information Systems