Gamification of Education
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Wii sports, tic-tac-toe, wheel of fortune. These are all seen as fun games that do not require a lot of critical thinking or learning. But what if these games were used to to teach? Video game designers, educators, and psychologists have experimented with this idea. If a topic that students might find hard to grasp or not incredibly interesting is put into a game format, it has been discovered that students find the topic much more engaging and learn more effectively. Learn more about these math, language, spatial, and cognition games and how they are used to educate in this weeks episode.
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