A new study by our top-rated Computer Science department proposes an innovative model aimed at facilitating collaboration between educators and video game designers in order to create more effective game-based learning tools.
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This new study was initiated by medical video game studio Level Ex in collaboration with CE Outcomes.
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For a long time, the prevailing thought about video games is they rot people's minds and have the potential to promote violence, but a new study, published in the Journal of Scientific Reports, shows video games might give kids an intellectual boost.
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Over the last 30 years, teacher-turned-principal Salome Thomas-EL has found success leveraging the game of chess to teach math and history at the elementary and middle school levels, writes Kate Stoltzfus for ASCD. But chess is not just about rote academics, says Thomas-EL: The game boosts student confidence, teaches them critical thinking and problem solving skills, and engages them behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively, along with providing a host of other benefits.
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"In a recent study, Johnson worked with students in her English Methods class to design, build and test an analog board game called Race to the White House. The teacher reported that her students needed more practice making claims based on evidence and anticipating counterarguments. The project offered the preservice teachers an invaluable opportunity to engage with high school students on an authentic learning project.
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A new study reveals that pigs are not only very intelligent animals, but are great at gaming too. The paper appeared in the Frontiers in Psychology journal, and showed how two Yorkshire pigs, Hamlet and Omelet, and two Panepinto micro pigs, Ebony and Ivory, became adept at playing video games. The pigs were trained using a "Rudimentary joystick-operated video game task" that was first developed to test chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys.
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What's the first question parents ask when their kid comes begging to play a violent shooter-type game? Is there blood? Kids are often good at making strong arguments for why they should be allowed to play non-gory but murderous games like "Fortnite" and "Among Us." Even in "Minecraft," there are skeletons, zombies and pillagers to kill.
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A ten-year longitudinal study published in the Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking on a group in early adolescence from as young as ten years old, investigated how playing violent video games at an early age would translate into adulthood behavior.
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