Video games and learning: Teaching and participatory culture in the digital age

By Amy Shirong Lu. 2012

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Writing in the Wild: Writers’ Motivation in Fan‐Based Affinity Spaces (2013, background): “Portals offer multiple interest-driven trajectories, opportunities to learn with others, and paths toward becoming a participant (Squire, 2011).”
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).”
Game-based Learning and 21st century skills: A review of recent research (2016, background): “…for its exciting and engaging features (e.g., adaptive challenge, player control, and variable rewards) and have potential to promote meaningful learning (e.g., Anderson, 2011; Gee, 2007; Squire, 2011), its actual capability of serving as a powerful learning tool still needs further investigation.”
Foundations of Game-Based Learning (2015, background): “…the speciﬁc elements that contribute to engagement and motivation in games, such as incentive systems, visual aes-thetics, game mechanics, narrative/fantasy, and musical score (e.g., Gee, 2003; Loftus & Loftus, 1983; Malone, 1981; Squire, 2011), and to consider their use within educational games.”