{"id":10427,"date":"2010-10-15T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2010-10-15T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:29:42","slug":"gaming-as-teaching-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/15\/gaming-as-teaching-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming as teaching tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaming as teaching tool<\/a> –<\/strong>– from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n

ANAHEIM \u2014 All work and no play makes a dull syllabus.<\/p>\n

That is what Sarah Smith-Robbins, director of emerging technologies at the Indiana University at Bloomington, told a somewhat wary audience here at the 2010 Educause conference on Thursday. \u201cGames are absolutely the best way to learn,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are superior to any other instructional model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith-Robbins prefaced her remarks by reminding the audience that she was taking an intentionally strong position in order to stoke debate. But she nevertheless argued that games \u2014 as simple as tag or as complex as World of Warcraft \u2014 can accomplish an array of teaching goals that more traditional pedagogy says it wants to achieve, but often does not.<\/p>\n

\u201cFundamentally, school is already a game,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a really bad one. The rules are not clear. The system works better for some people than for others. Not everybody has the same resources at the beginning of the game. We don\u2019t start on a level playing field or with a shared goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaming as teaching tool –– from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich ANAHEIM \u2014 All work and no play makes a dull syllabus. That is what Sarah Smith-Robbins, director of emerging technologies at the Indiana University at Bloomington, told a somewhat wary audience here at the 2010 Educause conference on Thursday. \u201cGames are absolutely the best way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-games-serious-games","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10430,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}