A Guide to Designing Curricular Games

This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. It also examines the social nature of gaming such as techniques for driver/navigator partners, small groups, and whole class structures to help make thinking visible; it expands the traditional design process teachers engage in by encouraging use of video game design techniques such as playtesting. The author emphasizes designing curricular games for problem-solving and warns against designing games that are simply ?Alex Trebek (host of Jeopardy) wearing a mask?. By drawing on multiple fields such as systems thinking, design theory, assessment, and curriculum design, this book relies on theory to generate techniques for practice.A Guide to Designing Curricular Games How to ?Game? the System By: Janna Jackson Kellinger Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783319423920, 3319423924 other ISBNs: 9783319423937, 3319423932 Copyright year: 2017