How Computer Games Help Children Learn

By David Williamson Shaffer, James Paul Gee. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Information Systems

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Learning in a mobile age: an investigation of student motivation (2014, neutral): “As evidenced by these self-reports, when children use tablets, they are generally found to be very engaged in the process: they are on-task and totally immersed in it with little or no awareness of the more general world around them (Beck & Wade, 2006; Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; Shaffer, 2006).”
Game–like learning: An example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn (2008, background): “Many good commercial video games are based on a theory of learning I will call “distributed authentic professionalism,” a theory that resolves our paradox quite nicely (see also Shaffer 2004, 2007).”
Using gamification to support learning English as a second language: a systematic review (2019, methodology): “…in particular have been used for various reasons in educational settings with positive learning outcomes (see Jackson & McNamara, 2013; Millis et al., 2017; Noroozi, McAlister, et al., 2016; Shaffer, 2007), the use of gamification for LESL is relatively a new field of research (see Garland, 2015).”
Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (2011, background): “Comprehensive examples of such “purpose-shifting” for Education are detailed and discussed in (Gee, 2003) and (Shaffer, 2006).”
Digital game-based learning: Impact of instructions and feedback on motivation and learning effectiveness (2013, background): “This has prompted many researchers to investigate the actual benefits of digital games, in terms of learning and motivation (Connolly, Boyle, MacArthur, Hainey, & Boyle, 2012; Gee, 2005; Prensky, 2001; Shaffer, 2006).”
“Media Time = Family Time” (2014, background): “Studies have also found that media can act as a teaching tool, with engagement in educational games being associated with increased reading and math ability (Shaffer, 2006).”
Constructionist Gaming: Understanding the Benefits of Making Games for Learning (2015, background): “Hundreds of educational games and simulations have been designed and evaluated to support learning across various domains (Shaffer, 2007; Squire, 2011).”
A systematic mapping on gamification applied to education (2014, background): “Since the eighties, researchers have been investigating the benefits of game and game-based approaches in education [24][12][30][19].”
The Design, Play, and Experience Framework (2009, background): “Bloom’s Taxonomy on Teaching and Learning (1956) is useful in thinking about and generating the student learning outcomes in serious game design.”
Longitudinal Analysis of the Relations Between Opportunities to Learn About Science and the Development of Interests Related to Science (2012, background): “Shaffer (2006) proposes that involvement in a domain in meaningful ways helps a child see “that learning matters and that [the child] can be good Science Education, Vol. 96, No. 5, pp. 763–786 (2012) at learning complex, technical, and specialized things” (p. 7).”
Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) as a Bridge Between Engineering Education Research and Mathematics Education Research (2008, neutral): “[65] Shaffer, D.”
Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education (2009, background): “The field of gaming and play-based virtual environments as a new educational technology and research area is rapidly expanding (e.g., Gee, 2003; Nelson, Ketelhut, Clarke, Bowman, & Dede, 2005; Shaffer, 2006).”
Writing for Whom? Cognition, Motivation, and a Writer's Audience (2010, background): “Learners are frequently highly motivated to write in the context of communities or activities that are interesting to them (Gee, 2003; Gilbert, 2001; Lipstein & Renninger, 2007; Putnam, 2001; Shaffer, 2007).”