PowerPoint on effects of digital gaming.

1. The Power of Game
Based Learning
6-8th Grade School #6, Elizabeth NJ

2. Why Digital Games?
 1. Research
 Over the last decade dozens of books, articles, and essays
have proven to have positive benefits for digital games
 2. Disengagement for Traditional Instruction
 The “Digital Natives” now require multiple streams of
instruction, frequent quick interactions
 3. Popularity
 The digital gaming industry is a $10 billion dollar industry

3. Hours Spent Playing Video
Games

4. Effects on Extracurricular
Activities
 try new activities in the comfort of their home
 learn about sport strategies and the rules of the game
 develops confidence in sport skills from winning virtual
victories and are more willing to try the actual sport
 raises confidence which reflect into the real game
Students are able to….

5. Guidance in the Digital Age
 When?
 With Whom?
 Under what conditions?
Three Important Questions to Consider:

6. Digital Guidance…
The Gate Keepers…
 Almost all games have parental controls
 These controls must be developed when the game is
first set up
 Parents/Teachers have the option to set a password
and settings

7. Purposeful Restrictions
 Use game ratings to determine appropriateness
 Decide who they can play/connect with online
 Restrict playing with strangers
 Time limits
 Mindful limits

8. Games Offer Other Parental
Features …
 Block: decide who children can play with
 Mute: eliminate the chat option
 Monitor: some games allow you to log in and check on
child’s account
 Speak Up: any uncomfortable interaction can be reported to
the game administrator

9. Games Offer Situated
Cognition
 Games Have:
 Well established principles
 Modules for learning
Students must:
 Directly relate to environment in the game and then learn and
demonstrate the skills
 Apply skills and practice within game
 Games are learned via modeling not direct instruction
Any learning done in a meaningful context has more
relevance to learning

10. What Makes a Game
Educational?
 Assimilation: using prior information to form a
hypothesis
 Accommodation: being able to realize the hypothesis
is wrong and create a new one
 Resolution: solve the problem
When games have these factors constantly embedded
it is said to be educational.

11. What Makes a Game Fun
Continued…
 Challenge and Strategy
 Different ways to win and earn points
 Element of Surprise
 Variations
 Replay Ability
 Playing the game with different outcomes each time

12. What Makes a Game
Educational?
 New information
 Educational information is provided in text or graphics
 Memorization
 Being able to recall events from previous stages in the
game

13. What Makes A Game
Educational Continued..
 Context and Cognition
 Putting new information into use
 Gender and Ethnic Balance
 Offers character gender options or language diversity

14. Types of Educational Games
 Management Games
 uses critical thinking and math skills to create a business
 Role Playing Games
 Based on exploration and quest completion
 Requires reading dialog, directions, inventory, maps, and
decision making

15. Game Types Continued..
 Strategy Games
 Includes skills most scientists use today
 Discovers how things work or don’t work
 Creating something new
 Replaying old history

16. Main Genre of Video Games
http://www.duelinganalogs.com/infographic/conceptual-map-of-the-main-genres-of-video-games/

17. Parent Involvement
 Play Games With Your Child
 Create a family experience
 Connect no matter the location
 Don’t be Afraid to Say No
 Keep rating in mind for content
 Allow Your Child to Show/Tell About the Game
 Create projects using game characters to expand
learning
 Example: journal from characters perspective

18. Parent Involvement
Continued…
 Ask Questions
 Create conversation and dialog with children
 Ask higher order thinking questions using the characters
 “Can you relate these heroes to any others?
 Keep Gaming System in the Family Room
 Games now have clans
 Bonding
 Locations don’t matter connect via internet

20. Using Games as a Teaching
Tool…
 Perseverance
 Kids fail at games all the time but always try again
 Students can be reminded they can pick up and keep
trying just like in a game
 Acknowledging Achievement
 Video games praise children for a job well done activity
points, a bonus, or unlock secrets

21.  Working Together
 You must collaborate to solve problems

22. Using Games as a Teaching
Tool
 Healthy Competitiveness
 Independence
 Kids can figure out the game with subtle hints from the
game
 Piques Interest
 Students are exposed to historic cultures and worlds they
don’t know
 Prompts students to research further
 A drive to be better

25. Conclusion…
 Digital gaming has gained in popularity and has a large
market which can benefit education.
 Games can pique students’ interests in different histories
and topics they have not been exposed to before.
 Parents or teachers can set controls to ensure that students
are not exposed to questionable elements in the game.
 Virtual games can offer socialization opportunities.
 If selected appropriately, games can offer great educational
benefits.

26. Sources
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 Toporek, Bryan. “Sports-Related Video Games Linked to Children's Participation in Athletics” Education Week,
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