What if you could harness the energy students put into gaming to learning math? You can. During this April 2, 2013 webinar, Dan Petrak, Des Moines Area Community College explored how to enrich your course and your students' learning experience.
7. Learning within Flow
Optimal Learning comes from Desirable Difficulty
Students should be making errors if we want to
optimize learning
Normally very uncomfortable
This is natural when playing games!
8. Digital Games provide…
• Instant and non-threatening feedback
• Mentally Demanding
• Customized learning through leveling,
challenge, and game mechanics
Hard Fun!
9. Fun is the Feeling we get from learning in Flow
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14. Hypothesize
Feedback loop helps students construct understanding of the rules.
We crave patterns and we want to fit our experiences into a schema.
15. Formalize and Practice
• We can help students formalize
what they are experiencing.
• Games can also be used to
practice the skills.
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16. Ultimately what is our goal?
• Deep procedural understanding
• Deep conceptual understanding
17. Digital games can help students learn and practice
math in a fun and natural way!
Motion Math:
Conceptual Fractions
Found in:
iTunes App Store
18. Digital games can help students learn and practice
math in a fun and natural way!
Algeburst:
Simplify Expressions
Found in:
iTunes App Store
19. Digital games can help students learn and practice
math in a fun and natural way!
Factor-tris:
Factors of Whole Numbers
Found at:
HotMath.com
20. Digital games can help students learn and practice
math in a fun and natural way!
Algeboats:
Evaluate Expressions
Found in:
iTunes App Store
21. Digital games can help students learn and practice
math in a fun and natural way!
Dragon Box:
Solving Equations
Found in:
iTunes App Store
22. To find other games
Maria Andersen’s Blog
http://busynessgirl.com/