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DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Games for Learning: Are Schools Ready for What's to Come?
Games Studies is still a relatively new field where much basic research remains to be done. This study asks K-12 teachers about their attitudes towards the use of games for teachi...
Katrin Becker, Michele Jacobsen
CHI
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
What HCI designers can learn from video game designers
Computer users have tasks they need to perform, and are therefore motivated to overcome poorly designed interfaces. With video games, there is no external motivation for the task ...
Randy Pausch, Rich Gold, Tim Skelly, David Thiel
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Connecting with kids: so what's new?
From pre-schools to high schools, at home and in museums, the educational community has embraced the use of computers as a teaching tool. Yet many institutions will simply install...
Lori L. Scarlatos, Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Mi...
IFIP
1993
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Computer Science in Elementary and Secondary Schools
In this paper we examine the current computer science curriculum in elementary schools and identify its shortcomings. We then presents a new approach to teaching computer science ...
Viera K. Proulx
CSEE
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Pex4Fun: Teaching and learning computer science via social gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pexforfun.com/)from Microsoft Research is a web-based serious gaming environment for teaching computer science. Pex4Fun can be used to teach and learn computer...
Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Halleux, Tao Xie