Kapp Notes

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Three Cognitive Benefits of Games

Kapp Notes

One: Challenge and Consolidation – Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and then let them solve these problems until they have virtually routinized or automated their solutions.

Cognitive 172
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A Meta-analysis Indicating the Benefits of Video Games for Older Adults

Kapp Notes

The study is called “Video Game Training Enhances Cognition of Older Adults: A Meta-Analytic Study.” ” The main aim of the meta-analytic study was to investigate the extent to which cognitive training with video games enhances cognitive functions in healthy older adults (age 60 and older).

Cognitive 100
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Games Teach!

Kapp Notes

All current reviews of adequately designed and peer-reviewed research have found NO learning or motivational benefits from games. When learning benefits are found for games it stems from instructional methods that can be found in non-game contexts. So that benefit has been document. Can’t We All Just Get Along.

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Games Teach!

Kapp Notes

All current reviews of adequately designed and peer-reviewed research have found NO learning or motivational benefits from games. When learning benefits are found for games it stems from instructional methods that can be found in non-game contexts. So that benefit has been document. Can’t We All Just Get Along.

Teach 239
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#DevLearn 2013 Resources: Thinking Like a Game Designer

Kapp Notes

A review of the pertinent scientific literature reveals that the benefits of retrieval practice have been known for at least 100 years and they have been demonstrated with many diverse groups [1]. 4] It turns out that the greater the amount of spacing between retrieval events, the greater the potential benefit to retention.

DevLearn 191
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#Training2014 Resources, Slides & Other Related Information Session M16

Kapp Notes

A review of the pertinent scientific literature reveals that the benefits of retrieval practice have been known for at least 100 years and they have been demonstrated with many diverse groups [1]. 4] It turns out that the greater the amount of spacing between retrieval events, the greater the potential benefit to retention.

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Entrepreneurial Youth Experience (EYE) Here in Bloomsburg, PA

Kapp Notes

Students will think about and experience: Generating Business Ideas Evaluating Customer Needs The Myths and Benefits of Being an Entrepreneur Living and Working as an Entrepreneur Building a Personal Growth and Learning Plan Conducting Initial Market Research…And more!

Evalution 193