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Author: Richard Tan
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1499491646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis narrative nonfiction title shows kids how playing computer games can help them learn new math, art, and science skills. The domain-specific vocabulary provides numerous opportunities for acquisition.
Author: Richard E. Mayer
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0262027577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of what research shows about the educational value of computer games for learning. Many strong claims are made for the educational value of computer games, but there is a need for systematic examination of the research evidence that might support such claims. This book fills that need by providing, a comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of what research shows about learning with computer games. Computer Games for Learning describes three genres of game research: the value-added approach, which compares the learning outcomes of students who learn with a base version of a game to those of students who learn with the base version plus an additional feature; the cognitive consequences approach, which compares learning outcomes of students who play an off-the-shelf computer game for extended periods to those of students who do not; and the media comparative approach, which compares the learning outcomes of students who learn material by playing a game to those of students who learn the same material using conventional media. After introductory chapters that describe the rationale and goals of learning game research as well as the relevance of cognitive science to learning with games, the book offers examples of research in all three genres conducted by the author and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara; meta-analyses of published research; and suggestions for future research in the field. The book is essential reading for researchers and students of educational games, instructional designers, learning-game developers, and anyone who wants to know what the research has to say about the educational effectiveness of computer games.
Author: David H. Ahl
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 185
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick McCabe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1119404223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPUT DOWN YOUR CONTROLLER Why just play videogames when you can build your own game? Follow the steps in this book to learn a little about code, build a few graphics, and piece together a real game you can share with your friends. Who knows? What you learn here could help you become the next rock-star video- game designer. So set your controller aside and get ready to create! Decipher the code build some basic knowledge of how computer code drives videogames Get animated create simple graphics and learn how to put them in motion Update a classic put your knowledge together to put your modern twist on a classic game
Author: Asi Burak
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1250089344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.
Author: Tom Bissell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307474313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games. In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they are so appealing, and what they are capable of artistically. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is a milestone work about what might be the dominant popular art form of our time.
Author: Linda L Crawford
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780078811173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the elements of games, surveys the various types of computer games, and describes the steps in the process of computer game development
Author: Heather Lyons
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2017-08
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 151243941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in Great Britain in 2017 by Wayland, an imprint of Hachette Children's Group.
Author: Barry Atkins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1847795587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.
Author: Jon Dovey
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2006-05-16
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0335224873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, it analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption. The book: Argues for the centrality of play in redefining reading, consuming and creating culture Offers detailed research into the political economy of games to generate a model of new media production Examines the dynamics of power in relation to both the production and consumption of computer games This is key reading for students, academics and industry practitioners in the fields of cultural studies, new media, media studies and game studies, as well as human-computer interaction and cyberculture.
