Trends in Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL)

What does DGBL mean to you?

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Benefits of DGBL• Tangential learning is possible through well-designed games.

• Games can support collaboration, problem-solving and communication in learning communities.

• Games increase engagement as they are designed to have the appropriate balance between success and frustration in order to keep players motivated to persevere. (Flow)

• Games often provide instant feedback and reward as students master activities or levels, and give students ownership and control of their own progress.

• Integrating game-based learning into the the curriculum allows for increasing computer literacy skills, problem solving skills and real world applications.

• Some games require systems thinking whereby students no longer look at things in terms of discrete items.

• "Griffiths refers to the merits associated with using digital games with special-needs children. For example, he cites a case where video or digital games had a calming effect on a seven-year-old child with autism. Griffiths also provides research data that suggests that adolescents with attention deficit disorder may experience improvements in “grades, sociability, and organizational skills” when using educational video games" (Griffiths, 2003).

• Today's generation of learners “think and process information fundamentally differently than their predecessors.” (Prensky, 2001). Game based learning gives teacher the opportunity to speak their language.

Evolution of DGBL

Evolution of DGBL

Game based learning has been around for generations. The evolution of GBL has moved to now include Digital game based learning (DGBL).

Evolution of GBL

Non-digital

Digital non-collaborative

Digital multi-player (MMO)

Edutainment (COTS)

Training/Simulation

Serious Games

Trends of DGBL

• Development of serious games by game designers (capture the allure of recreational games but within an educational construct)

• Engage learners in game design as part of the learning process

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Considerations

• Individualized instruction • Meeting Prescribed Learning Outcomes

(PLO’s)• Developing 21st Century literacy skills

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Focus Questions for DGBL

• What do we want the class to focus on while they play games?

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Discussion

How do we harness the engagement and enthusiasm for recreational games to enhance learning?

Quick Facts:– To date WoW players have spent 5.93

million years playing online (that's 51,946,800,000 hours)

– 3 billion hours spent playing video games globally every week

What Does This Mean For learning?

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