Using video games to enhance learning in digital systems

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback

Using video games to enhance learning in digital systems

Full text

Pdf (1.14 MB)

Source

Future Play archive
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share table of contents

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SESSION: Educational games, game-based learning table of contents

Pages 196-199

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-218-4

Authors

Vinod Srinivasan	Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Karen Butler-Purry	Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Susan Pedersen	Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 47, Downloads (12 Months): 227, Citation Count: 0

Additional Information:

abstract references index terms collaborative colleagues

Tools and Actions:	Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1496984.1497020 What is a DOI?

ABSTRACT

Recent studies indicate that traditional instructional methods may not be as effective for the current and future generation of learners. Given the increasing amounts of time that students spend playing video games, educators have been looking at using games to enhance teaching and learning. Research indicates that games have the potential to improve learning. However there is lack of empirical data on their effectiveness, particularly in a formal educational setting at the college level. In this paper we present preliminary results from a pilot project to develop an educational game prototype on the subject of basic digital design, to be used in various digital systems courses at the undergraduate level. Our findings indicate that the game has the potential to improve student learning in and attitude toward digital design and electrical engineering. Further development of the game and additional studies are planned to obtain more conclusive results.

REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

	1	Yasmin Bettina Kafai, Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children's Learning, L. Erlbaum Associates Inc., Hillsdale, NJ, 1995
	2	Prensky, M. Digital natives, digital immigrants, part II: Do they really think differently? On the Horizon, 9, 6 (2001).
	3	Marc Prensky, Digital Game-Based Learning, McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., 2004
	4	de Freitas, S. I. Using games and simulations for supporting learning. Learning, Media and Technology, 31, 4 (2006), 343--358.
	5	Gee, J. P. Situated language and learning: a critique of traditional schooling. Routledge, New York, 2004.
	6	Foreman, J. Next-Generation Educational Technology versus the Lecture. EDUCAUSE Review, 38, 4 (2003), 12--23.
	7	Felder, R. M. and Silverman, L. K. Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education. Engineering Education, 78, 7 (1988), 674--681.
	8	McCaulley, M. H., Godleski, E. S., Yokomoto, C. F., Harrisberger, L. and Sloan, E. D. Applications of Psychological Type in Engineering Education. Engineering Education, 73, 5 (1983), 394--400.
	9	Cratty, B. J. Active learning: games to enhance academic abilities. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1971.
	10	Gillispie, P. H. Learning through simulation games. Paulist Press, New York, 1973.
	11	Nesbitt, W. A., Foreign Policy Association, and Foreign Policy Association. School Services Dept. Simulation games for the social studies classroom. Crowell, New York, 1971.
	12	Catherall, T. S. Simulation games and their effect upon selected educational attitude changes. Thesis (M A), Brigham Young University., 1975.
	13	Heyman, M. Simulation games for the classroom. Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Bloomington, Ind., 1975.
	14	Dukes, R. L. and Seidner, C. J. Learning with simulations and games. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1978.
	15	Patricia Marks Greenfield, Mind and Media: The Effects of Television, Video Games, and Computers, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984
	16	Geoffrey R. Loftus , Elizabeth F. Loftus, Mind at Play; The Psychology of Video Games, Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1983
	17	James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
	18	Korzeniowski, P. Educational Video Games: Coming to a Classroom Near You?, TechNewsWorld, 2007. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56516.html.
	19	Shaffer, D. W., Squire, K. R., Halverson, R. and Gee, J. P. Video games and the future of learning. Phi Delta Kappan, 87, 2 (2005), 104--111.
	20	Shaffer, D. W. and Gee, J. P. Before Every Child Is Left Behind: How Epistemic Games Can Solve the Coming Crisis in Education. WCER Working Paper No. 2005-7. Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1). (2005).
	21	National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System. NSB-07-114, National Science Board, 2007. http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2007/stem_action.pdf.
	22	Harnessing the power of video games for learning. Federation of American Scientists, 2006. http://www.fas.org/gamesummit.
	23	O'Neil, H. F., Wainess, R. and Baker, E. L. Classification of learning outcomes: evidence from the computer games literature. Curriculum Journal, 16, 4 (2005), 455--474.