...Hayes 1 Kimberly Hayes GLS 502-800 Ashley Hudson April 23, 2013 Video Games: An Innovative Approach to Education Ten years ago, I’d have scoffed if I heard video games and education used in the same sentence, and I know a lot of other parents who would still have a similar reaction. In more recent years, however, I’ve been forced to change my opinion, and the person who influenced the change the most is, of all people, my children’s pediatrician, Dr. Jim Poole, the founder of Growing Child Pediatrics in Wake Forest, N.C. Having two children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) isn’t easy in the educational environment present in schools today, and through Dr. Poole’s work with my children, I have come to understand that the reason for the difficulty is that traditional curriculums that teachers have to work with aren’t flexible enough to allow them to tailor to children with learning differences. So what does this have to do with video games? A LOT. Video games have the potential to break down educational barriers that exist in the traditional classroom by providing alternative learning approaches that cater to kids with ADHD and other learning differences, and by building cognitive skills that can help all children succeed in the classroom. When I first discovered that my oldest child might have ADHD from his eighth grade teachers, they all told me that he needed medication before entering high school. I didn’t like the idea of medicating my child, so I began...
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...learning from management games is gathered whenever games are used as an educational tool. In past years, many business schools have been working on for changes in the way of teaching: like real life applications, case studies, making them experience real challenges in business, which all can be explained as “Learning by Doing”. Teaching itself is opening ways for students like the World Wide Web, distance education, end user learning and cooperative learning. The objective behind a management game is to offer students the opportunity to learn by doing in as reliable a management situation as possible and to engage them in a simulated experience of the real world. Management games give students a relaxed and fun filled environment. Students learn and practice from new challenges faced in management games and get the opportunity to use them in a non-stressful way. Games are also motivating in the sense they introduce an element of competition and the competitive ambience makes them concentrate and think intensively during the learning process, also making them mentally strong. Students who have experienced games oriented activities hold an optimistic attitude for them. Overall, this process involves Games are also motivating. It introduces an element of competition and a competitive ambiance also makes learners concentrate and think intensively during the learning process, which enhances unconscious acquisition of inputs. Most students who have experienced game-oriented activities...
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...Perceived Effects of Online Games to the Academic Performances among Students under the College of Business Administration Education at University of Mindanao (UM) Leynard Bangkulit Romeo Dimiao Russel Anthony Junsay Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In 1958, the world’s first world computer game, a rudimentary two-player tennis game, was created to entertain visitors on the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Since then, the computer/video game industry has become one the most aggressively growing business sectors in the United States and in the whole world. Obviously, games are emerging as one of the most dominant forms of entertainment. This trend goes further as of the increasing penetration of high speech Internet connection and the declining prices of computers, video-game consoles, and mobile entertainment devices. (Lee, Jin, Park, & Kang, 2005) As we know, Internet offers many conveniences. As a result it has made many people depend on it. What is worse, a large number of people have become addicted, especially to online game addiction. By2007, the population of online gamers worldwide was about 217 million, approximately 28 percent of the total online population (comScore,2007).In addition, online game addiction is prevalent in many countries, including China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, U.S., and Canada. In South Korea, 2.4 percent of the population, ages nine to thirty-nine, were believed to be addicted to online games, and over 10 percent could...
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... 2 Product After some years in declining of the toys purchasing in the Netherlands, there is a trend from the last year, which will continue this also, of increasing the number of purchases this year. As the economy is recovering from the financial crisis people are able to spend more for toys. So the toys industry has positive expectations for the future. EduPlay solves one very big problem of its competitors’ games. The other board games have only several questions in their box. When somebody plays the game many times he will learn the questions by heart and there is no point to play the game anymore because it becomes boring. The innovation of EduPlay is that there are online questions updates every month so you can change your questions and learn new things with them every month. In that way the customer can play it for more than just one month. Every parent wants his child to be well educated. But every child prefers to play with friends some games than studying his boring school subject. Here comes the idea of EduPlay to match the fun to play a game with a friend with...
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...suffer a serious decline. The demise of play will certainly have serious consequences for children and for the future of childhood itself. Parents, teachers and mental health professionals alike, are expressing concern about children who do not play. Some seem blocked and unable to play. Others long to play, but policies and practices at home and in school have driven open ended, self directed play out of their lives. Children no longer have the freedom to explore wood and fields and find their own special places. Informal neighbourhood games are a thing of the past as children are headed into athletic leagues at increasingly younger ages. Increasingly children find themselves in school settings which feature scripted teachings, computerised learning and standardised assessment. Physical education and recess are being eliminated. New schools are being built without playgrounds. While allegedly these approaches are providing quality education, they trivialize and undermine children’s natural capacities for meaningful and focused life lessons through creative play and this leaves many children profoundly alienated from their school experiences. Role of play There are various roles of play in the children’s development today. This is...
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...who play less time than that are called non-addicts. Which will focus on the specific players in a game called World of Warcraft. This game is a very popular game worldwide with over 5000 people playing at any given time (Cronin 113-147). Its popularity is one of the reasons why people are getting addicted to it. Gamers are all the time looking for new and interesting games and as they find something new they started playing and telling their friends and family about it. In this way those people themselves get obsessed of games as well as they make others overwhelmed with the interest of gaming. I would define this group of players as a culture because they have their own way of life that is very different from anything one is, they spend much of their time in gaming which is no more than a way to get busy. And this activity does not mean anything useful. In addition at one point these 5000 players are playing then a sort of a social group of their own. Some of my songs are complete addicts and play this game at least 8 hours a day without worrying about college, sleep or work. These people have no friends and not have any food because they are busy playing Warcraft all day (Mayra 45-113). We think that it will be a great joy to research attitude of this culture. I wonder what makes them behave as they do. Why are they willing to give all friends, food and education only a game that probably will be out of the stores in 2 months? In addition, I would characterize the differences...
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...Three passions, elementary yet overwhelmingly strong, govern my life: a love of video games, the advances of technology, and a quest for the knowledge that will help advance mankind. These passions, like a wave moves a boat, have moved me to live my life the way I have to this point. A love of video games brings a joy to any hollow hours that may arise in my day. It has already expended many hours of my life and none of those hours have been regretted. A love of video games can be the catalyst in bringing a group of people together--people who have nothing in common with one another can sit down and have fun while playing together in a game. I have spent time on this finally because even the people who can not see each other face to...
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...the company image? Perhaps it has some education value? This game may be for young teenagers or even younger, 8-13 years of age. As the young adults or older generation are too busy to be playing games and the colours are bright to attract attention to the young kids, and the game isn’t made that hard as the young people may be bored. The graphics also look like it would be better for younger people. The fact that you get to change what your character looks like would be more childish and kids around 9-10 years old will enjoy it. Product Aims: The aims of the products are too engage and entertain the viewers as it is meant to be a good computer game. The game also has some educational value about lasers, to help the viewers to learn about certain things. It could change behaviour as lasers are dangerous and should not be used. Good features with explanations: 1. When you are playing the game, you collect points and also stars, when you do get a star the game stops and a question is asked, if it is correct then you gain a certain amount of points, this is a very good educational value. 2. When you select being a boy or girl you can then change what you want your character to look like, which would also be fun before the game has even started, this will entertain and engage the viewer. 3. The good thing about this game is that for each level there is a completely different game, with different engaging animations, and in the games the animations are very good as when...
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...Art and Audio Highlights The game don’t not have any art as its all shapes and font, to us the art style of the game is retro with a clash of minimalistic Hardware As in the high-concept document, state your target platform. If it is a personal computer rather than a console, also state the minimum configuration required to play the game. Production Details If you’re writing a treatment as part of a pitch to a publisher, it’s essential to say not only what the game will be like, but who will develop it and when, and what it will cost to develop. Good game ideas might be common, but good development teams are rare; the publisher will want to see evidence that you have the resources and experience to get the job done. Current Status Start by letting the publisher know where you are now. If you have actually begun some prototype work or proof-of-concept work, say so and indicate what features it contains. If the game is still no more than a gleam in your eye, leave this section out. Completed prototype demonstrating military (but not psychic) game features. Includes: 3D landscape with moving water and foliage, bridges, buildings, vehicles. Player characters with visible differences, motion-captured animations, variety of movement modes. Development Team List the names and qualifications of your key people. Indicate what role each will play in the project. Don’t include their entire résumés; nobody will read all that. Instead, give a one-paragraph synopsis of each person’s...
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...Shane O’Donnell 9/26/2013 TA-Rex Beaber LIMBO AS A GAME FOR LEARNING Limbo is a modern black & white computer game that has the player traveling through an expansive two dimensional wasteland in search of the character’s sister. Along this journey, the character stumbles into obstacle after obstacle, preventing him from moving forward. These obstacles serve as puzzles for the player to solve. If the player does not solve these puzzles, then the character is stuck in the same spot, likely dying over and over. This game uses real concepts from physical sciences, such as pendulums and gravity, to push the player to critically think about how to solve the puzzles presented to them. Limbo does a good job at engaging the user into learning by principles of problem solving such as: sandbox, pleasantly frustrating, and well-ordered problems. Video games, to the general public, aren’t generally accepted as tools to engage the player in learning. The image of a gamer to most is no better than an obese man with unkempt hair and a bag of potato chips sitting on his couch/computer chair all day. Though this really isn’t the case, gamers comes in all kinds of appearances, it can be easy to see why people think this. The amount of time some people spend on their gaming devices is pretty haunting. Some people near 20 hours per day gaming, which is slightly superhuman. Though this is at a far extreme, what we see from this is engagement. What other activities do people want to do for...
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...just shut down - they don't see the point of playing when they have no chance of winning. I decided to make a list of things I think are good and bad (my pros and cons) about competition in the class. And then accordingly, I would decide whether it's a good idea for a given situation or not such a great plan for the lesson. Pros: 1. Most kids really enjoy the "game" aspect of a competition. Fun = good for learning. 2. This is a great way to get the students to actively participate in the class. They get really involved, and just from the involvement they learn more than they would have by sitting and just passively listening. 3. Great for the bright and fast kids. If they're usually on the border of boredom, a game / competition will get them motivated to start thinking again. 4. Lets students have a sense of success. 5. If done in groups, can really develope comradeship with the other team members. 6. Some students work best under pressure. Competition is the perfect source of pressure. 7. Works better for older kids. Younger kids seem to take things very personally, and cannot distinguish between playing a game and reality. Cons: 1. Not so great for the weaker students. If a student finds himself among intellectual superiors, they will either not participate or else get frustrated with the competition and possibly the subject itself. 2. Not...
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...opposing team or code words to play dirty on the line of scrimmage. These situations really took all of the fun out of the game and caused players to choose other extracurricular activities the following season. Even as a huge sports fanatic I agree with Statsky’s thoughts when she states, “Before children are psychologically ready for competition, maybe we should emphasize cooperation and individual performance in team sports rather than winning.” Children seek approval and praise from their elders on an everyday basis and when held to a high standard are not receiving this. I have seen numerous individuals upset with their children for coming in second place at a track meet or not making it to state at a wrestling tournament. These children are giving their all but being held to an adult or professional athlete standard. As soon as the whistle blows and the game begins, all fun and camaraderie go out the window. Jessica Statsky exclaims that, “Children are easily influenced, and when they sense that their competence and worth are based on their ability to live up to their parents’ and coaches’ high expectations-and on their ability to win-they can become discouraged and depressed.” I fully support this statement and believe it to be very true. Many children are becoming discouraged and depressed because of adult expectations. What happened to the love of the game and being able to...
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...University Sta. Cruz Main Campus Sta. Cruz, Laguna College Of Hospitality Management and Tourism PHYSICAL EDUCATION 4 (Games and Sports) ACTUAL PERFORMANCE (Volleyball and Basketball) Fatima Kimhoko Mababangloob Mr. Jorge Alexander Uriza DHRM II-D February 05, 2013 Pictures: Experience: As we went to the volleyball and basketball court of our campus, II-D and II-F we’re the section who played this kind of sports. Unfortunately, players in basketball of our section were incomplete so I had volunteered myself to be one of the players. At 8:30 in the morning, first set in volleyball game was started. My co team players and I we’re the first six who joined the set. It was a little bit difficult for me because it was my first time playing an actual of this game. Even though it was hard for me to hit the ball but I did my best to have a score of our team. Fortunately, we won the first set of the game up to the end of each set simultaneously. Afterwards, I went to the court of basketball together with my team mate. A few minutes later, basketball girls had started. Referee told us that the game will consume only just in 5 minutes so I thank God for this. It was very hot and this made us destruction to the game. The first score goes to our opponent. And I was the one who made the other points to our team. Later on the game had ended. And luckily, we won! My team player and I we’re so happy and felt proud to ourselves. Then, we all...
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...UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 FOUNDATION SCIENCE FHEL1012 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC STUDY MID-TERM TEST JULY 2013 TIME: 1 HOUR NAME: ____________________________________ TUTORIAL GROUP: T ( ) SECTION A: COMPOSING TOPIC SENTENCES (12 MARKS) Given below are 3 thesis statements. For each thesis statement, write 2 topic sentences that will function as the first sentence of a body paragraph. (You will note that one topic sentence has been constructed for each thesis statement) 1. Thesis statement: There are three ways of combating the stress which undergraduates face in university. Topic sentence 1 To begin with, undergraduates should adhere to a daily time table that allows them to manage tasks in an organized manner Topic sentence 2 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [2 Marks] Topic sentence 3 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [2 Marks] 2. Thesis statement: Plastics are injurious to the environment in three ways. Topic sentence 1 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...
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...Observation #1: Children Observing people in an informal setting allows you learn more about who they are as a person. You can learn about what makes them uncomfortable, how well they handle social situations, and what they excel at. Observing children in an informal, unstructured setting gives you a glimpse into how they have developed and how well they handle social situations at their young age. Observation #1: Children details an observation made on a group of children during their recess time at a local elementary school and the connections made to previous readings and topics covered in class. Brief Overview This observation took place at an elementary school located in southern central Maryland. The school is set in an urban community, where most children qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program through the government. The observation group is a group of first grade students. Students in this group are approximately six years old to seven years old. They are of African, African-American, or Latino decent. There are 15 females and 6 males within the observation group. This group of students have varying home lives. The home lives range from a typical home to being homeless, to having only one parent, to having no parents, or to having little to no income. Observation Overview The students were escorted outside to recess at eleven-thirty in the morning. The students were walked down the sidewalk toward the equipment. Once their feet touched the grass, they were...
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