Definitions
Famous Person(s)
Dramatic Scenarios
"R"s
Fill in the ______
100
"A ______ is a type of simulation that often stresses competition or mastery; it is a contest with rules and a clear outcome."
What is a game? (p. 229)
100
"...indisputable father of pyschodrama and sociodrama, the improvised acting of personal problems or social interactions for therapeutic purposes."
Who was Jacob L. Moreno? (p. 217)
100
"Players are shifted around to take other parts, either during the enactment or later in a rerun. Students can be moved to another role to develop empathy and gain a new perspective and then be returned to their original role to complete the scenario."
What is role reversal? (p. 226)
100
"The activity will produce certain _____, perhaps a successful or unsuccessful outcome, winners and losers, or a resolution of some type."
What are results? (p. 231)
100
“Define a clear _____ for using virtual realities for learning.”
What is purpose? (p. 238)
200
"____ ____ employs the concept of social ____ and is used for various purposes in education, such as diagnosing and analyzing a particular ____, teaching students the content of the ____, giving students an opportunity for practicing a ____, or evaluating how well students can actually ____ the ____."
What is role play? (p. 221)
200
"The first use of simulations is usually attributed to the _______ ________ of the nineteenth century, not only for planning battlefield strategies but also for recruiting soldiers."
Who was the Prussian Army? (p. 218)
200
"The teacher asks the students how they think a scene is going to play out sometime in the future."
What is future projection? (p. 227)
200
"There must be a clear purpose or set of ______ for the activity, something the simulation or game explores. The _____ will set the guidelines for other decisions about using the game and will give the activity a particular emphasis."
What are reasons? (p. 230)
200
“______ the experience with students to identify and discuss the essential learning.”
What is debrief? (p. 239)
300
"Originating with Thorndike and other behavioral psychologists in reference to skills and practice, ____ refers to a student's ability to take learning one context and apply it to a different context."
What is transfer? (p. 219)
300
"Gaming theory also owes a historical debt to mathematician _____ __ ____, who worked out the quantitative theory of decision making under conditions of competition and uncertainty. His classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, published in 1944, provided the vocabulary for describing the characteristics of competition and the quantitative methods needed for using computers in gaming."
Who was John von Neumann? (p. 219)
300
"Abstract expressions like 'low man on the totem pole' or 'bouncing off the walls' can be played out in concrete actions that represent feelings."
What is concretization? (p. 227)
300
"The activity will have certain steps of play, phases, or sequences."
What is running time? (p. 231)
300
“By their very design, simulation and games are focused on ______ assessment, self-assessment, and mastery.”
What is formative? (p. 235)
400
Engaging in "[s]ound judgment and appropriate professional action in complex, context-dependent situations."
What is practicing professional judgment? (p. 213)
400
"Sociology's best known role theorist, _____ _____, believed that all of life is, indeed, a stage and that much of human behavior can be understood in the way roles are played on that stage ---- sometimes in a sincere and realistic way, sometimes in an idealized manner, and sometimes cynically."
Who was Irving Goffman? (p. 221)
400
"A whole scene is arranged and dramatized through the arrangement of the players..."
What is sculpting? (p. 227)
400
"The activity will use certain ______. The game or simulation might occur entirely through computers or mobile devices or partly in the physical world. There might be a need for a simulated room or apparatus, graphic displays, problems, data banks, objects, videos, audiotapes, materials, supplies, implements for writing and recording, and so forth."
What are resources? (p. 231)
400
“Once the simulation is under way, the teacher usually cultivates an air of studied ______. Unlike the director of a dramatic scenario, the teacher of a simulation is more like a prop manager, trying to stay offstage, limiting visibility, and restraining the urge to intervene.”
What is detachment? (p. 233)
500
"This way of learning works best for practicing role-related behaviors where professional judgment needs to be used in what are often very complicated situations in new environments."
What is learning through virtual realities? (p. 214)
500
"The first business game is usually credited to _____ _____ of the American Management Association, who applied what he had learned about gaming at the Naval War College to the development of a business game."
Who was Frank Ricciardi? (p. 219)
500
"A place is assigned to an ------ additional character, someone the players can vent their feelings on, experiment with, or ask for advice as one might do with an ------ mentor."
What is empty chair? (p. 226)
500
"The activity may generation information, data, scores, or possibly the need for calculations."
What are records? (p. 231)
500
“____ ______ have included, among other things, various types of games and activities designed to help participants discover and adapt to a culture’s view of the world.”
What are folk models? (p. 216)
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