Game-Based
Learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats
What is serious games?
Issues that do not have easy or simple solutions
What is Ill-structured problems
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?
A technology process in which machines produce three-dimensional solid objects based on coded instructions
What is 3-D printing?
Computer-based three-dimensional environments for students and teachers to explore interactively
What is virtual reality?
Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format.
What are simulation games?
The approach to instruction in classrooms emphasizing learning by making
What is maker-based learning?
Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problem.
What is problem solving?
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 maker movement
Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and winning score
The use of games to teach academic content to students
What is Game-based learning?
The approach to curriculum and instruction organized around problems or issues for students to solve
What is problem-based learning?
Knowing how to use data, models, simulations, and algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve problems
What is computational thinking?
Areas in schools and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interest
What are Makerspaces?
Online learning environments where students interact as game players, often through the use of avatars
What is virtual worlds?