____ Games
The Digital Age
Maker _____
Problems
For Students
200

Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and a winning score

What is Web-Based Games?

200

Knowing how to use data, models, simulations, and algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve problems

What is Computational Thinking?

200

Areas in schools and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interests

What is Makerspaces?

200

Issues that do not have easy or simple solutions

What is Ill-Structured Problems?

200

Sequence of written commands that tell a computer what a programmer wants the machine to do

What is Coding?

400

Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format

What is a Simulation Game?

400

Software that records and extends thinking and brainstorming with pictures and webs

What is Visual Thinking Tools?

400

Approach to instruction in classrooms emphasizing learning by making

What is Maker-Based Learning?

400

Approach to curriculum and instruction organized around problems or issues for students to solve

What is Problem-Based Learning?

400

A technology process in which machines produce three-dimensional solid objects based on coded instructions

What is 3-D Printing?

600

Academic learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats

What is a Serious Game?

600

Software that allows teachers and students to create an object and make it do things in response to programmed instructions

What is Object-Oriented Programming?

600

A do-it-yourself community where people create and build objects of all kinds with electronics, robotics, smart materials, and 3-D printers

What is the Maker Movement?

600

Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problem

What is Problem Solving?

600

Students and teachers designing, constructing, and using robots as part of a school curriculum

What is Robotics?

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