Digital Literacy Practices for a Gaming Generation

Engerman, Jason A.; Hein, Robert; Turcotte, Nate; Carr‐Chellman, Alison A.

doi:10.1163/9789004429840_005

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“…Although a significant amount of research indicates the value that video games have for education and teaching and learning practices (e.g., Engerman et al, 2020;Squire, 2003;Turcotte et al, 2018), playing video games is often viewed as an isolated endeavor by students in the course. As such, this lesson introduced Makey Makey as a technology that shifts the act of playing a video game to a more collaborative endeavor.…”

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Designing Collaborative Tech-Rich Learning: Building a Multi-Player Game Controller with Makey Makeys

Turcotte

2024

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This lesson challenges learners to consider the educational benefits of using games to support teaching and learning practices through a Makey Makey design challenge. A Makey Makey is a digital toolkit that creates a closed-loop circuit by connecting alligator clips to conductive materials. I introduce the Makey Makey during a unit exploring the use of gaming technologies in PK-12 classrooms. During this lesson, groups of learners use a Makey Makey to build a multi-player game controller. This article describes a lesson that has been successfully integrated with undergraduate students in an Introduction to Technology in Education course and with middle and high school students.

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Designing Collaborative Tech-Rich Learning: Building a Multi-Player Game Controller with Makey Makeys

Turcotte

2024

JTILT

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“…Video game play has evolved beyond a hobby to professional Esport teams (Engerman & Hein, 2017;Taylor, 2012) and serious games for training (Green & Bavelier, 2003;Mullinix et al, 2013;Pavlas et al, 2008;Scielzo et al, 2010;Veinott et al, 2014). In serious games and computer simulations, several reviews have shown that the transfer of that training to the operational environment, has not been effective (Bell & Kozlowski, 2006;Vogel et al, 2006).…”

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Leveling Up: Using the Tracer Method to Address Training Needs for Esports Players

Roose

Veinott

2020

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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This paper describes a new method, the Tracer Method, that maps multiple types of decision-making activities to visual search behaviors to improve the acquisition of expertise. The method combines Critical Decision Method (CDM) with eye tracking to identify expert strategies for performance in interface-based tasks. The Tracer Method uses a network analysis of eye movement data, contingent on the critical decisions, to produce new information that neither method alone can generate. Twenty-five experienced Over-watch players were eye-tracked while playing a competitive game, followed by a CDM interview. Three types of decisions: sensemaking, uncertainty management, and coordination resulted in different eye-movement network diagrams of transitional probabilities. These different strategies can inform Esport team training. Although we demonstrate the usefulness of the Tracer Method in an Esports context, the method could apply in other human factors domains.

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Digital Literacy Practices for a Gaming Generation

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Designing Collaborative Tech-Rich Learning: Building a Multi-Player Game Controller with Makey Makeys

Designing Collaborative Tech-Rich Learning: Building a Multi-Player Game Controller with Makey Makeys

Leveling Up: Using the Tracer Method to Address Training Needs for Esports Players

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