The use of computer and video games for learning - a review of the literature by Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith. I haven’t read this yet, but it appers to be an interesting read. From the summary:
The use of recreational computer and video games, particularly by young people, is commonplace. It is often suggested that playing these games can also have educational value. This review synthesises the key messages from past research studies which have considered how and why both recreational and educational computer games have been used for learning and the impact of their use on young people. Other areas of investigation include young people’s experiences and performances and preferences in using such games. Finally some recommendations are made concerning the planning and design of the future ‘edugames’.
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Digital Game-based Learing: It’s Not Just the Digitial Natives that Are Resless is a very interesting article in the March/April issue of Educause Review. The author, Richard Van Eck, outlines:
why DGBL is effective and engaging, how we can leverage those principles to implement DGBL, how faculty can integrate commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DGBL in the classroom, what DGBL means for institutional IT support, and the lessons we can learn from past attempts at technological innovations in learning.
html version and PDF version are both available.
Link via Bibliographic Gaming.
I’ve been doing a little reading on the impact of gaming on today’s learners. In the process, I’ve stumbled across a couple of blogs that are about gaming and libraries.
Game On: Games in Libraries “strives to keep librarians up to date on gaming with convenient one-stop shopping for all your gaming news and information.”
Bibliographic Gaming, a brand-new blog, hopes to “gather a community of librarians together who are interested in using games (digitial games, in particular) to teach information literacy skills.” If you’re interested, check out the site and let the authors know you’d like to contribute.
