Serious
Games is an offshoot of the gaming industry. Many of these games have
educational value. Here's a NY
Times article explaining the phenomena. Saving
the World, One Video Game at a Time
One
series that I found compelling is Global Conflicts. According to their
website, “Global Conflicts” is an award-winning educational game series used
for teaching citizenship, geography, and media courses. The series allows
students to explore and learn about different conflicts throughout the world
and the underlying themes of democracy, human rights, globalization, terrorism,
climate and poverty. The game series is easy to use for teachers and is
developed with close attention to curriculum requirements and ease of use in
classroom teaching." You can get access to all the games for a 30-day
trial.
Check out this intro video for the Palestine Conflict. There are others available on YouTube as well. One thing I've found is that gamers like to record themselves as they go through a game. It's interesting, getting a stream-of-consciousness account of what they are thinking as they go.
Check out this intro video for the Palestine Conflict. There are others available on YouTube as well. One thing I've found is that gamers like to record themselves as they go through a game. It's interesting, getting a stream-of-consciousness account of what they are thinking as they go.
Another Resource
Blunt,
R. (2009, December). Do serious games work? Results from three studies. eLearn Magazine. Retrieved from http://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=1661378
Hi Great post,
ReplyDeleteYou can also check out this tool "Raptivity(www.raptivity.com)" which has a lot of cool interactive games.
There was also a webinar conducted by Raptivity and Ross Smith (Director of test, Microsoft Skype Division) on "Where do serious games make most sense".
You can check that on below mentioned link.
http://www.raptivity.com/resources/insights/presentations-and-recorded-webinars
Thank You.