Learning Games
A game that is downloaded to a personal device.
What is Desktop-based games?
Using games to teach academic content to students.
What is game-based learning?
A technology process in which machines produce three-dimensional solid objects based on coded instructions.
What is 3-D printing?
Academic learning included within the structures of online or software and app-based game formats.
What is Serious games?
Approach to curriculum and instructions organized around problems or issues for students to solve.
What is problem-based learning?
Computer-based three-dimensional environments for students and teachers to explore interactively.
What is VR?
Learning or entertainment activities, often featuring virtual worlds, avatars, and competition for points and a winning score.
What is Computer-and web-based games?
Students learning academic content without realizing they are doing so; often embedded in game play.
What is stealth learning?
A sequence of written commands that tell the computer what a programmer wants the machine to do.
What is coding?
Recreations of real-world situations and settings in a game-like format.
What is simulation games?
Approach to instruction in classrooms emphasizing learning by making.
What is market-based learning?
Students and teachers designing, constructing, and using robots as a part of a school curriculum.
What is robotics?
Using game playing to motivate people to use technology for specific purposes such as buying a product and learning a skill.
What is gamification?
Applying prior knowledge and critical thinking strategies to develop answers or solutions to a problems.
What is problem solving?
Areas in schools and libraries devoted to enabling students to design, tinker, invent, and construct based on their ideas and interests.
What is makerspaces?