Sentences with phrase «academic games»

Used to make academic games with older kids, but I can see doing a version of this with my little guy.

That study sparked his interest in developing competitive academic games.

One woman who will be at the forefront of this though is PlayStation's head of academic game development Maria Stukoff, whose academic partnership programme works with universities to help students gain the skills needed to master the PlayStation platforms.

To fix the system, Coleman proposed academic games in which teams of students competed against those at other schools.

In this week's EdNext podcast, Marty West of EdNext talks with Greg Toppo about academic games and James Coleman's idea that they could be used to increase motivation and academic performance among teens.

2D side scrolling platformer, Grief has taken the top prize at the first ever Academic Game Award in Skövde.

For the latter, the book masquerades as philosophy; but surely to the former it is meant to be a bitter in - joke, a pungent satirical description (but not so obvious as to lose the amusing credulity of the uninitiated) of the contemporary academic game.

Coleman proposed that schools should replace the competition for grades with interscholastic academic games, «systematically organized competitions, tournaments and meets in all activities,» from math and English to home economics and industrial arts.

But he admitted that his vision was «not realized,» even though a handful of fellow researchers at Hopkins and elsewhere piloted academic games with great success.

Few realize that Coleman himself saw that work as a «detour» from his main line of research on how academic games could be used to foster student engagement, effort, and — ultimately — achievement.

They are touted as «strategically targeted, educationally proven and expertly developed» and represent the latest in innovative academic games.

Families in cities across the United States have flocked to them as academic game changers, and research shows that many of their students beat the odds on standardized tests.

Incorporate academic games into your lessons.

Many teachers draw from activities developed for gifted and talented students when planning enrichment activities, including challenging academic games and exercises, various multimedia projects, and peer tutoring (Whiting, Van Burgh, & Render, 1995).

Now in its third year, Skövde Academic Game Award or SAGA rounded off the showpiece event of Skövdes game industry calendar.

This is the finest academic games work I've been involved in, or (as I remarked to José) «the game studies paper I want to be buried with».

Why was Coleman so excited about academic games?

I clearly am the authority within this academic game.

But I try to be an authority figure who authorizes their ability to think critically — and also one who lays out the academic game ahead of time for their inspection: there are no hidden trap doors, no secret rooms.

I reckon it's not just an «academic game», but nevertheless I'll give it a go.

The researchers devised an academic game to test the students» competitiveness and found that the girls, on average, are significantly less competitive than the boys.

I wanted to try something different — a career in which I didn't have to play the academic game of «publish or perish.»

If student status was driven by victories in sports, he wondered, would young people develop a higher regard for academics if they had opportunities to engage in academic games that pitted school against school?

June Kronholz wrote for EdNext about academic games and contests in «Competition Makes a Comeback.»

Could academic games and competitions be used to engage students in learning?

An article in the new issue of Education Next looks at the role of academic games, contests and competitions in motivating students, particularly at the high school level.

The Spring 2016 issue of Education Next features articles by leading scholars that revisit and update Coleman's findings on desegregation, the achievement gap, school choice, teacher quality, the role of the family, and academic games.

Students co-created classroom rules, practiced and rehearsed social and academic routines, and played social and academic games to reinforce their learning.

He describes various types of corrective activities, including reteaching, tutoring, cooperative teams, academic games, alternative textbooks, learning centers, and others.

In addition, they monitor and check when engagement wanes, and implement an academic game, use physical movement, provide unusual information, or some other element within Design Question 5, Engaging Students.

That was the first red flag that Common Core wasn't the «rigorous» academic game - changer it was being touted as.

There, she reported and produced human interest and sports stories and an academic game show for high school students.