Embracing Video Games for Strategic Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication Skills Practice

2022 ◽  
pp. 296-314
Author(s):  
Katherine Joan Evelyn Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
New Type ◽  
Culture Design ◽  
Collaboration And Communication ◽  
The Way

According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) report, 70% of families have a child who is actively playing video games at home. This pop culture phenomenon has challenged the way teachers think about learning and engagement. This chapter explores how the nature, culture, design, mechanics, and logistics of video games shape the way classroom gamers think. It examines how video games provide a space for strategic practice, the 21st-century skills acquired, and the tools gamers use as experts. Presenting background and context to help better understand why and how video game environments develop strategic thinking, the purpose of this chapter is to encourage educators to embrace video games to harness pop culture experiences as a means to motivate students to develop 21st-century literacy practices and skills. Through the reflections and framework of a teacher's experience who is an active researcher, it also discusses how a popular mainstream video game in the classroom changed her teaching and opened her eyes to a new type of learner.

Embracing Video Games for Strategic Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication Skills Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-202
Author(s):  
Katherine Joan Evelyn Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
New Type ◽  
Culture Design ◽  
Collaboration And Communication ◽  
The Way

According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) report, 70% of families have a child who is actively playing video games at home. This pop culture phenomenon has challenged the way teachers think about learning and engagement. This chapter explores how the nature, culture, design, mechanics, and logistics of video games shape the way classroom gamers think. It examines how video games provide a space for strategic practice, the 21st-century skills acquired, and the tools gamers use as experts. Presenting background and context to help better understand why and how video game environments develop strategic thinking, the purpose of this chapter is to encourage educators to embrace video games to harness pop culture experiences as a means to motivate students to develop 21st-century literacy practices and skills. Through the reflections and framework of a teacher's experience who is an active researcher, it also discusses how a popular mainstream video game in the classroom changed her teaching and opened her eyes to a new type of learner.

Designing Curricular Games

2018 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Janna Jackson Kellinger
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Video Game Design ◽  
Teaching Video

Most teachers only dream of their students spending the amount of motivation, attention, passion, and critical thinking on their classes that some do playing video games. Many teachers have thought “How can I compete with that?” as they confiscate a hand-held gaming device from a student. However, more and more teachers are incorporating video games into their curriculum, instead of banning them. This chapter argues that it is not just video games that can transform teaching, video game techniques can as well. By using video game design principles such as game stories and quests, teachers can restructure their teaching so students do not just learn the curriculum, they experience it. This chapter explores the research on using game-based teaching and learning with the Next Generation including how game-based teaching can be used to achieve 21st century goals as outlined by business leaders within 21st century educational constraints.

The Way Ahead for Serious Games

2010 ◽  
pp. 305-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Cannon-Bowers
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
End Users ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
Video Game Technology ◽  
The Way

Despite the fact that people have been playing games since before recorded history, the field of Serious Games—as a scientifically valid and viable area of investigation and application—is really in its infancy. In fact, the rise in availability and popularity of video games is a relatively recent phenomenon and actual applications of video game technology to serious pursuits are relatively rare. That said, I believe that Serious Games are coming into their own, and predict that the next few years will witness an explosion of new games, design features and guidelines, success stories, and scientific findings regarding their effectiveness. How quickly and fruitfully this happens depends, in part, on how well the community of researchers, designers, developers, evaluators, and end users can come together to systematically conceive of, and deploy games for serious purposes. Haphazard attempts—i.e., those that do not build on the findings of others’ experiences—will retard the speed at which viable games are consistently produced. Likewise, rigorous evaluation of those games that are developed cannot be neglected or future developers will likely fall prey to the same problems and pitfalls as their predecessors.

The Atari VCS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Hardware Design ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Home Video ◽  
Video Game Music ◽  
Sound Chip ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the Atari VCS, the machine that took video games out of the arcades and into the living room and established Atari as the dominant player in the home video games industry, at least for a time. It examines the context that surrounded the birth of the Atari VCS and how that influenced its hardware design, in turn shaping both the sound and people’s expectations of video game music. The Atari’s sound chip, the Television Interface Adaptor, gave the Atari VCS what might charitably be described as a ‘characterful’ voice. By reviewing the hardware, this chapter explores how and why the Atari VCS sounded just the way it did, and by exploring some of the games that were released for the platform the chapter shows how, while sound games did indeed sound dreadful, with a little musical ingenuity they could work wonderfully as game soundtracks.

scholarly journals ФОРМИ И МЕТОДИ НА ГЛОБАЛНО СЪПЕРНИЧЕСТВО В СЪВРЕМЕННИЯ СВЕТОВЕН РЕД

2021 ◽  
Vol XXХII A (1) ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Владислав Лазаров ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
National Security ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Age ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Way

Modern dynamics in society necessitates a new understanding of the concept of security, achieved as a result of a comprehensive strategic analysis. Creating an adequate vision of national security in the global age requires a paradigm shift in the way people think. Contemporary society and realities demand the formation of a new type of personality – a citizen of the 21st century who is informed, competent, educated, a democrat, a patriot, accountable to the country and to himself, while being a cosmopolitan at the same time. The article addresses issues of national security as part of cultural identity

scholarly journals Performing as video game players in Let's Plays

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Game Players ◽  
The Way

This article examines the fan practice of Let's Plays—video recordings that video game players create of themselves playing that include live commentary or riffing. I argue that the riffing accompanying game play footage in Let's Plays highlights how players play idiosyncratically by constructing and performing game-playing personalities. These videos emphasize the performative nature of video game players as fans who actively negotiate with the video games that they play through presentations of individual playing styles and experiences. I show that in accounting for how and why they play the way that they do, Let's Players demonstrate what I suggest are various modes of playing in which players can engage with video games generally. Consequently, creating, sharing, and discussing Let's Plays can render visible a wider diversity of game-playing identities, experiences, and styles.

Marketing Military Realism in Call of Duty 4

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Thomas Payne
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Modern Warfare

This essay investigates the challenges that video game marketing encounters when selling the pleasures of playing virtual war. While marketing paratexts are crucial to video games because of the vagaries of their industry, they are especially important for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, as it is the first of the franchise to be set in the 21st century and immerse players in contemporary theaters of war. These marketing paratexts not only generate hype for the game and work to drive sales, but as importantly, they also suggest particular textual readings over others with the goal of insulating Call of Duty’s virtual war play from interpretations and criticisms that might link the violent play on-screen to the worldly violence unfolding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN POLA KOMUNIKASI ORANG TUA DAN PERILAKU ANAK PENGGUNA VIDEO GAME DI SMP N 3 GAMPING SLEMAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Rifaldi Zulkarnaen ◽  
Sri Hendarsih ◽  
Eko Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Communication Pattern ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Way

By the development of the time, video games technology increasingly popular in the society starting from children to adults. The video games effect can disturb the growth and development of the children. Parents must give more concern and attitude for video games users. This concern and attitude must in the way how parent’s communication pattern. The effective communication can controled video games users. Children with the good communication pattern can give good or bad estimation if the childrens addiction from video games. This is too give the children bad attitude like estimation from parents.Purpose. The purpose of the research is to discribe the parents communication patterns and behavior of children user video games in SMP N 3 Gamping, Sleman. Methods. The method used is discriptive research. The study conducted in marc 2015. The research locatioan in SMP N 3 Gamping Sleman Yogyakarta. the subjects were child early teens video games users as many 49 users. The research used questionnaire about parents comunication pattern and behavior of child video game users. Last the analysis used distribution frequency.Results. The research shows 44,9% of parents using authoritaive communication pattern, 18,4 % parents used permissive communication pattern and 36,7 % parents used authotarian communication pattern. While the behavior of the children’s video game users are good is 81,6 % and 18,4 % are bad.Conclusion. Majority, parents used authoritative communication patterns to chlid of video games users and users have good behavior.

scholarly journals Mathematics of 21st Century: A Personal View

10.29007/19ls ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Buchberger
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Gröbner Bases ◽  
Polynomial Systems ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Meta Level ◽  
New Type ◽  
Object Level ◽  
General Method ◽  
The Way

In this talk, we will exemplify the spirit of a new type of mathematics by a report on the Theorema system being developed in the speaker's research group. Theorema is both a logic and a software frame for doing mathematics in the way sketched above. On the object level, Theorema allows to prove and program within the same logical frame and, on the meta-level, it allows to formulate reasoning techniques that help proving and programming on the object level. In particular, we will show how this type of doing mathematics allows to mimic the invention process behind the speaker’s theory of Gröbner bases, which provides a general method for dealing with multivariate nonlinear polynomial systems.

The 21st-Century Classroom Gamer

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine J. E. Hewett ◽  
Bethanie C. Pletcher ◽  
Guang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
21St Century Classroom ◽  
Model Study ◽  
New Type ◽  
Support Research

The 21st century has given rise to gaming industry technologies that drive a new type of learner in the classroom. This article draws data from four case studies that were conducted as part of a sequential mixed-model study. The study explored the 21st-century skills students reported learning through their video game consumption and creation of intellectual property. The qualitative data analysis led to the development of five major findings: (1) the strategist: accomplishing the mission, (2) the creator: the art of gameplay, (3) the communicator: building relationships and communities, (4) the hero: to be the hero of a great adventure, and (5) I am an “elite”: a digital native. These findings attempt to create a profile of the 21st-century classroom gamer based on the data. They represent and support research trends that explore the gaming phenomenon, gamer traits, and 21st-century skills learned through playing video games.

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