IST 5011 Technology Skillls & Abilities: Games (1 hr)
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IST 5011 Technology Skillls & Abilities: Games (1 hr)
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| Organizations | Center for Applied Technology (CAST) - Founded in 1984 as the Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST has earned international recognition for its development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). | |||||
| Gametheory.net - Game Theory .net provides resource materials to educators and students of game theory, including the application of game theory to economics, business, political science, computer science, and other disciplines. | ||||||
| The education arcade - explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players. | ||||||
| Federation of American Scientists - Read the theory behind the reasons that FAS is committed to develping games for learning. | ||||||
| North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) - network of professionals working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results in all types of organizations. | ||||||
| Examples | Games to train - commercial game templates | |||||
Learningware - -commercial games for different agents, see the 'why games work' and free trials. |
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| Applied readings | Designing Courses: Digital Games for Learning - linked articles that cover virtual worlds, design principles, and development processes and tools. | |||||
| Theory | the theory of learning in games. | |||||
| The Chemistry Of Game Design | ||||||
| Software | DMOZ Directory of Game Tools and Software | |||||
| Scratch - a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. | ||||||
| Tools and Guides | Hot Potatoes - the suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises | |||||