This document discusses digital game-based learning and its growing popularity as a new model for education. It identifies different types of digital game-based learning like edutainment, training simulators, and serious games. It also outlines who uses game-based learning, such as Fortune 500 companies and therapists. The document then explains how games can help students socially and cognitively by developing their critical thinking skills. It discusses key elements of games like challenge, feedback, and triggering curiosity. Finally, it notes why game-based learning is effective for topics like reading, math, and building knowledge, and identifies remaining questions about implementing games into classrooms.

1. Digital Game-based Learning…
Is becoming a new model for learning

2. TYPES OF DIGITAL GAME-BASED LEARNING
 Edutainment
Currently gaining popularity in schools
Combines learning and entertainment
 Training Simulators
The player learns real-world skills through use of a game
Used by many businesses to train employees
 Serious Games
Games that are developed to teach but do not provide any kind of entertainment

3. WHO IS USING GAME-BASED LEARNING
 Fortune 500 Companies
 Researchers
 Workout Enthusiasts
 Therapists

4. WAYS GAMES CAN HELP STUDENTS
 Socially
 Cognitively
 Critical Thinking Skills

5. CHALLENGE
 The learner is challenged when there are clear goals and expectations for the
game that apply to the player
 Feedback on performance is important
 Game should make player feel successful

6. CURIOSITY
 Sensory Curiosity
 Visual and audio effects
 Cognitive Curiosity
 When players are surprised or intrigued

7. WHY USE IT
 Struggling readers use games to help with fluency and comprehension
 New readers use games for word and letter recognition
 The drill and practice games are used for math fact recall
 Games start users off in an appropriate level so they can build their knowledge
 Correct level also gives students a sense of success

8. WHAT WE STILL NEED TO KNOW
Thanks to my PLN, I have complied a list of questions that still need to be answered
about digital game-based learning
 What aspects of gaming or play are inconvenient with institutional spaces and
expectations?
 How to identify effective gamification?
 What are the benefits of learning through an avatar?
 How to effectively implement game-based learning into classrooms?

9. CONTROL AND FANTASY
 Player has choice and power in the game
 Increases sense of personal control
 Fantasy brings together emotions and thinking
processes of the learner