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Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
This article outlines an innovative approach to the instruction of foreign languages: a term-long role-playing game in the style of tabletop role-playing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons." Students adopt personas, avatars, or "player characters" and take them through adventures, exploration, puzzles, and fights with…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Role Playing, Educational Games, Undergraduate Study
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Kumar, Janavi; Adhikari, Koushik; Li, Yijing; Lindshield, Erika; Muturi, Nancy; Kidd, Tandalayo – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to enable community members to discuss their perceptions of eating habits and physical activity in relation to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders, and reveal facilitators and barriers to healthy eating behavior and physical activity engagement. Design/methodology/approach: Nine focus groups, which included six…
Descriptors: Barriers, Motivation, Attitudes, Eating Habits
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Fabricatore, Carlo; López, Ximena – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The increasing demand for creative individuals in the labor market requires well-prepared professionals, capable of enhancing competitiveness through new ideas and innovative actions. Educational programs should, therefore, rely on approaches and learning environments that foster creativity. In this study, video game development projects were used…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Games, Video Games, Material Development
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Karsenti, Thierry; Bugmann, Julien – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The goal of this study was to explore the educational potential of Minecraft. This project was conducted with 118 elementary-school students from Canada during the 2016-2017 school year. To explore the educational potential of Minecraft on the students, we designed a "Minecraft challenge" for students. 10 game levels of ascending…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Wesselmann, Eric D.; Ren, Dongning; Swim, Emily; Williams, Kipling D. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2013
Ostracism--being ignored and excluded--is a painful event that threatens fundamental needs. Ostracized individuals' reflective responses focus on cognitive appraisal and motivated recovery, and previous research suggests these appraisals can help or hinder recovery. Rumination is a negative style of cognitive appraisal that often leads to…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Interpersonal Relationship, Hypothesis Testing, Coping
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Gonzalez, J.; Pomares, H.; Damas, M.; Garcia-Sanchez,P.; Rodriguez-Alvarez, M.; Palomares, J. M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2013
As embedded systems are becoming prevalent in everyday life, many universities are incorporating embedded systems-related courses in their undergraduate curricula. However, it is not easy to motivate students in such courses since they conceive of embedded systems as bizarre computing elements, different from the personal computers with which they…
Descriptors: Video Games, Video Equipment, Programming, Undergraduate Students
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Marino, Matthew T.; Israel, Maya; Beecher, Constance C.; Basham, James D. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2013
Science education video game research points toward promising, but inconclusive results in both student learning outcomes and attitudes. However, student-level variables other than gender have been largely absent from this research. This study examined how students' reading ability level and disability status are related to their video…
Descriptors: Science Education, Video Games, Reading Ability, Disabilities
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Goehle, Geoff – PRIMUS, 2013
In this paper we demonstrate how video game mechanics can be used to help improve student engagement with online mathematics homework. Specifically, we integrate two common video game systems, levels and achievements, with the online homework program "WeBWorK." We describe the key features of the implementation of these systems and…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Video Games, Homework
Ingram-Goble, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This is an exploratory design study of a novel system for learning programming and 3D role-playing game design as tools for social change. This study was conducted at two sites. Participants in the study were ages 9-14 and worked for up to 15 hours with the platform to learn how to program and design video games with personally or socially…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Social Change, Computer Simulation
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Inan, Mehmet; Dervent, Fatih; Özden, Bülent; Arslantas, Bülent – World Journal of Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine students' responses to the digital and the active version of Angry Birds™ according to students' mathematics grades. The relational screening model was used to reveal the relationship between the students' responses and their math grades. The participants were 26 elementary and secondary school students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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Stansbury, Jessica A.; Wheeler, Evangeline A.; Buckingham, Justin T. – Computers in the Schools, 2014
Technological advancements and growing dependence on media outlets as sources of information compete for the attention of individuals born in a rapidly expanding digital age. As a result, educators using traditional, nondigital teaching methods struggle with keeping students engaged in the classroom. The present study assessed the extent to which…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Statistics, Introductory Courses
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Deveci, I.; Onder, I. – Science Education International, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the views of the students on homework assignments for science courses. Survey method was adopted for this study. The sample for the study was composed of 1584 seventh and eighth grade students from middle schools. The views of the students regarding homework assignments for science and technology…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Homework, Assignments
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Sekarasih, Laras; Walsh, Kimberly R.; Scharrer, Erica – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
This study investigated the following research question: How do sixth-graders respond to a media literacy lesson that was designed to, among other goals, introduce the concept of the presence of commercial interest in media production, particularly regarding the prevalence of media violence? Forty-seven responses were analyzed thematically using…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Violence, Mass Media Effects, Media Literacy
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Ruggieri, Sabrina; Bendixen, Mons; Gabriel, Ute; Alsaker, Françoise – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2013
Based on the notion that the history of victimization has an impact on the sensitivity to current victimization situations this study investigated whether victims of bullying show more pronounced responses to single episodes of social exclusion. We examined whether victimization experiences in school are associated with responses to ostracism in a…
Descriptors: Victims, Social Isolation, Rejection (Psychology), Video Games
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Méndez, Laura; García-Pernía, María Ruth; Cortés, Sara – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2014
This study attempts to show how the creation of an innovative scenario, introducing video games and online communities as educational resources in the classroom, facilitates the development of new literacies in the context of participatory culture. The experience described was carried out during the 2010-2011 academic year in a secondary school…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Students
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