Exploding the castle : rethinking how video games and game mechanics can shape the future of education

• Other Authors: Young, Michael F. D. (Editor), Slota, Stephen T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2017]
• Series: Psychological perspectives on contemporary educational issues.
• Subjects: Video games in education.; Education > Computers & Technology.; Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806608683
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-937-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages)

Lacking a digital crystal ball, we cannot predict the future of education or the precise instructional role games will have going forward. Yet we can safely say that games will play some role in the future of K-12 and higher education, and members of the games community will have to choose between b...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Castle upon a hill / Michael F. Young and Stephen T. Slota
• Chapter 1. What homeric epic can teach us about educational affordances of interactive narrative / Roger Travis
• Chapter 2. Structures of play: Literacy, games, and creative writing / W. Trent Hergenrader
• Chapter 3. Development: The role of digital games in a classroom ecology: Exploring instruction with video games / Amanda Bell and Melissa Gresalfi
• Chapter 4. More than an avatar: Unmasking the player's impact on an educational game / Jackie Barnes and Melissa Gresalfi
• Chapter 5. Ask not what you can do for badges, ask what badges can do for you / Peter Samuelson Wardrip and Samuel Abramovich
• Chapter 6. An ecocentric framework for game-enabled impact: Lessons learned from the quest2teach project / Sasha Barab and Anna Arici
• Chapter 7. Educating digital natives: Possible and prospective futures of students in learning ecologies / W. Ian O'Byrne and Nenad Radakovic
• Chapter 8. Twist: Measuring and supporting learning in educational games / Valerie J. Shute, Seyedahmad Rahimi, and Chen Sun
• Chapter 9. Situating big data / Jennifer Dalsen, Craig G. Anderson, Kurt Squire, and Constance Steinkuehler
• Chapter 10
• Conclusion: Distributed teaching and learning systems in the wild / Jeffrey B. Holmes, Kelly M. Tran, and Elisabeth R. Gee
• Chapter 11. The inevitability of epic fail: Exploding the castle with situated learning / Stephen T. Slota and Michael F. Young.