Magic EdTech

JANUARY 24, 2023

There is a common conception that playing video games can lead to extreme behavior or game addiction. This is because games have a tendency to raise a child’s engagement levels, causing them to become absorbed in the game mechanics. What exactly are game-based learning solutions, one might wonder?

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Matrix

MAY 8, 2018

Video games have evolved a lot since they first started and are today among the most popular pastimes of the modern man. If at first these games were terribly simple, they quickly became very complex immersive worlds that not only entertain and engage but do a lot for the player’s cognitive development.

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Axonify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

To make things more frustrating, games like Pokémon Go have captured the imagination and energy of millions of individuals. One route is to let employees play games. Not multi-hour role-playing games, for instance, but casual, quick games that take place over a few moments. Think Candy Crush, Breakout or Angry Birds.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But I want this to be really exciting for learners, like a game! Let me do some research. Many games use time as a way to keep players engaged and excited. Time may actually decrease learners’ motivation to be truly cognitively engaged with the learning experience. Let’s add a timer for each decision.

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Hurix Digital

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Today, game-based learning in a classroom is a game-changer with the myriad ways it helps students learn and apply different concepts in various contexts across generations. Let’s dig deeper and answer questions like: What is online game-based learning? What is an example of game-based learning in education?

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Hurix Digital

JUNE 12, 2023

One of the leading reasons that educators champion game-based learning in education is because it promotes the creativity and critical thinking skills necessary for problem-solving. But just how does game-based learning in education help students develop critical thinking skills? Read on to learn more.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Kids, for example, might love to play soccer or love to play video games like Minecraft. These types of games and activities keep children engaged, often for hours at a time. LearningWorks for Kids even created a new term for the combination of engagement and games: engamement. The bottom-line: kids love to play games.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2014

When it comes to game-based learning, 2014 is the year of theory moving into practice. An increasing number of organizations are planning initiatives to include games in their learning solutions. The research has been validated and plans are being set. Why not use a role playing game to give learners situational practice?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 11, 2012

I just reviewed a paper submitted to a journal (one way to stay in touch with the latest developments), and all along they were doing research on the cognitive and motivational relationships in the game. They claimed it was a game, and proceeded on that assumption. Or it’s not a game, whether you say so or not.

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Magic EdTech

JANUARY 24, 2023

There is a common conception that playing video games can lead to extreme behavior or game addiction. This is because games have a tendency to raise a child’s engagement levels, causing them to become absorbed in the game mechanics. What exactly are game-based learning solutions, one might wonder?

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Hurix Digital

JUNE 12, 2023

Educators rightly recognize this and are leveraging all tools at their disposal, including K12 learning games. Game-based learning is one of the most promising tools, as it combines educational instruction with playful entertainment. So, why have games been used as an educational tool for so long?

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Axonify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

To make things more frustrating, games like Pokémon Go have captured the imagination and energy of millions of individuals. One route is to let employees play games. Not multi-hour role-playing games, for instance, but casual, quick games for employees that take place over a few moments.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

She thinks training completion is low because the content isn’t engaging and wanted to know if a learning game could fix it. I told her that there is no “easy button,” and games are not a cure-all for for boring content or bad learning design. How do you implement a true game-based learning strategy that will actually work?

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Kapp Notes

MAY 3, 2017

Challenge : As the game-based learning expert James Paul Gee has said, good games give players a set of challenging problems and let them solve those problems until they can do it automatically. Then those same games throw a new class of problem at the players requiring them to re-think, their now—taken for granted—mastery.

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Litmos

APRIL 14, 2020

The behavioral and cognitive views of learning essentially viewed us as formal logical beings. More recent research, which can be characterized under the banner of situated cognition, recognizes that our thinking is much less rational than we’d like to believe. And clearly, we can react emotionally before we react cognitively!

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Thinkdom

APRIL 7, 2024

Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy Bloom's taxonomy is a classification system that categorizes learning goals into six hierarchical levels, each representing a different cognitive skill. How would you summarize the key findings of a market research study to inform business decisions?

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 13, 2013

First we discussed, Why Games for Learning in Singapore? And discovered that Singapore has a robust games industry, here is some information about the games industry in Singapore. Singapore’s games sector comprises of over 62 games development, publishing and services companies. Sitzmann, T. Wouters, P.,

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 19, 2015

A number of meta-analysis studies have been conducted in the field of game-based learning attempting to create generalizable findings that can be used to select and create meaningful educational and instructional game experiences. Here are three guidelines culled from research on the subject. Then the students play the game.

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Learningtogo

AUGUST 26, 2021

Humans have been using machines to augment our capabilities for a long time, so it’s only natural that we’ve come to a point where we’re looking to replicate our cognitive processes in some of those machines. Alan Turing predicts that machines might one day mimic the cognitive functions of humans. pharmaceutical research and discovery.

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Designing Digitally

APRIL 24, 2017

There is often some question as to the validity of fantasy in an instructional game. The researcher Thomas W. Malone set out to study why games are fun and motivational. He ultimately came up with three components that made games motivating and enjoyable. Visual imagery enhances recall. This is called episodic memory.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 31, 2017

The company, Ambient Insight (Now Metaari ) publishes quantitative syndicated reports that break out revenues by customer segment (demand-side) and by product category (supply-side) based on thier industry-leading learning technology taxonomy and our proprietary Evidence-based Research Methodology (ERM).

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I want this to be really exciting for learners, like a game. Let me do some research. Many games use time as a way to keep players engaged and excited. Time may actually decrease learners’ motivation to be truly cognitively engaged with the learning experience. Let’s add a timer for each decision.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 5, 2017

She wanted to know if I could answer a few questions about gamification as she saw my TEDx talk and has gotten interested in the subject of games and gamification for learning. I think it is awesome that she is so excited about games and gamification for learning so here are the questions and my answers.

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Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Games have found their way to the training room quite a while ago. With the transformation of generations, however, much has changed in what is perceived as the norm in corporate training and games became the go-to for effective learning. Games get learners in the flow. Games tap into both the cognitive and the emotional.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For example, in a previous blog entry I noted that expert chess players have access to over 50,000 configurations of Chess pieces on a board and can easily remember where chess pieces are mid-game because of these patterns. The results seem to be tied to the need to reduce cognitive load. 1987) Foundations in Learning Research.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 30, 2011

What is a game? Chapter Two examines the individual elements that make up a game from the rules to the aesthetics and describes how they contribute to game play. Chapter Two examines the individual elements that make up a game from the rules to the aesthetics and describes how they contribute to game play.

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SmartUp

MARCH 16, 2022

Created by Josh Wardle for his partner, the game has since been bought over by the New York Times for a seven-digit figure. For a game that was originally just for the two of them, it has grown to attract millions of players daily. These make sure the learner fully understands what they are taught.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 27, 2012

I was raised in a household where video games were not allowed. While she was right about the idea that video games CAN have negative effects (as researchers have shown that violent videogames can alter brain function), games can have value. And, now I have a 7-year-old who wants to play video games – just because!

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Leo Learning

JULY 22, 2019

Ryan Timpany, Technical Digital Designer, at LEO Learning, shares lessons from the front line of creating dynamic games-based learning, and looks at why this area of learning is only just becoming widely popular. So what are some of the enduring myths holding businesses back from exploring game-based learning approaches ?

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Designing Digitally

JANUARY 19, 2017

In the past, games have been written off as possibly fun but inconsequential and definitely meaningless. Thanks to further research and the test of time, the pendulum is swinging the other way. Games have the ability to teach. Games can challenge long-held perceptions and change the way people view issues and other people.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Karl Kapp, professor, author and speaker, understands the value of games and simulations in learning. In this two-part interview, Karl covers everything from video games to virtual 3D worlds, their cognitive advantages and future trends in online learning. I can “blame” them for this whole thing.

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Coorpacademy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today, the Bescherelle range offers, in addition to references, works on history, languages, the subtleties of the French language, but also family games. NUMA is today a key player in championing the startup culture and instigating innovation worldwide through training. Grégoire Sentilhes. de Brabandere & A. Mikolajczak.

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Growth Engineering

APRIL 7, 2016

We’ve also touched on the point that games and gamification work in harmony with the most complex informational hardware in the known universe – the human brain. According to University of Reading researchers, attention spans are affected by the subject’s emotional connection with the activity. “We Playing games releases endorphins.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 26, 2011

He has gone on to do some really cool things in instructional gaming and other areas and I’ve recently caught up with him because of a project he is doing related to distributed, asynchronous co-design with children. A video of the game appears below (Greg is talking in the video). Walsh: The game is targeted at K-4th grade.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

Even though technological innovation occurs at rapid speed and new learning theories emerge from cognitive research, large and entrenched training organizations move like slow dinosaurs. Think you know all about games? Read this article to know and understand the four key areas to a games design. Get it all here.

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Axonify

JANUARY 6, 2017

Games and gamification for learning will continue at a strong pace. Once again this year, I’ve seen increased interest in gamification and games for learning and I am not alone. This may be due in part to the large interest in games in general. Gamification Analyst, Author, Consultant, Speaker, Professor. Website: [link].

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 17, 2008

Herb Simon , the polymath who won a Nobel Prize in economics before becoming one of the world’s top cognitive scientists, coined the term ’satisficing’ for consumer behavior. Which is why one of the serious games I’d really like to do is have the player try to succeed in an advertising agency.

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