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Games-To-Teach or Games-To-Learn: Unlocking the Power of Digital Game-Based Learning Through Performance (Gaming Media and Social Effects) by Yam San Chee (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Games-To-Teach or Games-To-Learn: Unlocking the Power of Digital Game-Based Learning Through Performance (Gaming Media and Social Effects) about?
"The book presents a critical evaluation of current approaches related to the use of digital games in education. The author identifies two competing paradigms: that of games-to-teach and games-to-learn. Arguing in favor of the latter, the author advances the case for approaching game-based learning through the theoretical lens of performance, rooted in play and dialog, to unlock the power of digital games for 21st century learning. Drawing upon the author?s research, three concrete exemplars of game-based learning curricula are described and discussed. The challenge of advancing game-based learning in education is addressed in the context of school reform. Finally, future prospects of and educational opportunities for game-based learning are articulated. Readers of the book will find the explication of performance theory applied to game-based learning especially interesting. This work constitutes the author?s original theorization. Readers will derive four main benefits: (1) an explication of the difference between game-based-teaching and game-based learning, and why this difference is of critical importance, (2) an exposition of the theory of game-based learning as performance, (3
Who reads Games-To-Teach or Games-To-Learn: Unlocking the Power of Digital Game-Based Learning Through Performance (Gaming Media and Social Effects)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Yam San Chee (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789812875181
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Science, Technology
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