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Nigg, Carina; Weber, Christoph; Schipperijn, Jasper; Reichert, Markus; Oriwol, Doris; Worth, Annette; Woll, Alexander; Niessner, Claudia – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: Urban and rural areas have been experiencing major demographic and structural changes, characterized by an aging population in rural areas and a growth of cities in number and size. However, it is poorly researched how children's physical activity and screen time developed in urban and rural areas. To address this deficit, we…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Children, Physical Activity Level, Trend Analysis
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Suggate, Sebastian Paul; Martzog, Philipp – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During typical childhood interactions with screen-media, two features are prominent. First, input is dominated by audio-visual signals and second, these predominately provide children with ready-made images, potentially negating effortful mental imagery construction. We present a two-year longitudinal study on a sample of 109 preschool children.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mass Media Use, Television Viewing, Video Games
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Czauderna, André; Guardiola, Emmanuel – Higher Education Studies, 2021
The development of digital games over physical distance is a common practice in the gaming industry, yet widely neglected in the curricula of digital game development programs at university level. The coronavirus pandemic, however, pushed project-oriented game programs all over the world towards an implementation of ad hoc approaches to remote…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Video Games, Teaching Methods, Distance Education
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Seidel, Sebastian; Bettinger, Patrick; Budke, Alexandra – Education Sciences, 2020
In Germany, 93% of young people between the ages of 10 and 18 play video games daily. Political geography, in particular popular geopolitics, have found that video games can help to establish and develop people's understanding of geopolitics. Consequently, this affects geography education, providing both challenges and opportunities for teaching.…
Descriptors: Video Games, Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Barriers
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Pastes Urbano, Lina M.; Terán, Hamil S.; Sotelo Gómez, Fabinton; Solarte, Mario F.; Sepulveda, Carlos J.; López Meza, Juan M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: The purpose is a bibliographic review that seeks to offer a clearer vision of the impact of technological tools on the implementation of the flipped classroom model. Background: This document reviews the flipped classroom and secondary education literature to analyze what technological tools are used to implement this model in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
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Friedrichs, Henrike; von Gross, Friederike; Herde, Katharina; Sander, Uwe – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
This research project was conducted to explore parental attitudes towards and their mediation of video games. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 28 parents (14 couples) assessed their media-related habitus, their media-educational habitus and the interaction between the habitus. The results show that the media-related habitus has a…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Video Games, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
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Stiller, Anja; Schwendemann, Hanna; Bleckmann, Paula; Bitzer, Eva-Maria; Mößle, Thomas – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to introduce MEDIA PROTECT, a multi-modal intervention for parents and teachers with six components preventing problematic, and in the long run addictive, use of screen media by children; second, to present results of a formative evaluation of the teacher training, an important component of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Formative Evaluation, Faculty Development, Training
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Schaal, Sonja; Schaal, Steffen; Lude, Armin – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2015
The valuing of biodiversity is considered to be a first step towards its conservation. Therefore, the aim of the BioDiv2Go project is to combine sensuous experiences discovering biodiversity with mobile technology and a game-based learning approach. Following the competence model for environmental education (Roczen et al, 2014), Geogames (location…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Del-Moral, María-Esther; Guzmán-Duque, Alba-Patricia – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2014
This paper has as its aim to analyze how CityVille, a videogame hosted on Facebook and oriented to the construction of a virtual city, can favor collaboration between gamers along with the exchange of strategies, equally contributing to learning transfer and skill acquisition. The first step consists in identifying the opportunities which the said…
Descriptors: Video Games, Social Media, Simulated Environment, Educational Games
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Grumm, Mandy; Hein, Sascha; Fingerle, Michael – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Aggressive behavior between children in schools is a topic that receives much interest as violence and aggressive behavior cause many maladaptive social outcomes in the school setting. In the current study the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was adapted as a measure of children's implicit aggression, by assessing the association of the self…
Descriptors: Aggression, Predictive Validity, Association Measures, Prediction
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Wiemeyer, Josef; Schneider, Philipp – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2012
Considering the wide use of Serious Games in application fields like cognitive learning, health education and rehabilitation and the recent developments of sensor and interface technology it is surprising that applications to motor learning in sport are rare. The aim of this study is to examine whether a specific learning effect can be elicited by…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Educational Games, Teaching Methods
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 13th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2016), October 28-30, 2016, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by the University of Mannheim, Germany, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Technological Advancement
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Krahe, Barbara; Moller, Ingrid – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
The relationship was examined between exposure to and preference for violent electronic games and aggressive norms as well as hostile attributional style. Following a pilot study to sample widely used electronic games varying in violent content, 231 eighth-grade adolescents in Germany reported their use of and attraction to violent electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Norms, Gender Differences