Thursday, June 25, 2015

Video Games and Education

I have chosen to read Video Games and Education by Harry J. Brown. This book has been referred to me by my advisor and several of my guiding teachers towards my path to get my Ph.D. My focus of studies revolves around literacy, learning, and technology. I believe that video games are a great place to look for all three of these things. This book is a great place to continue this investigation, and I am sure I will be able to use this book to help me understand more challenging concepts of literacy in relation to learning in and out of the classroom. This book will be a challenging read, but I think I can make some serious progress though it in the time I have left in this course. I have provided a picture of the book below:
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12 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 26, 2015 at 12:22 PM

    This sounds like a very interesting book! I'm interested in what this book had to offer to teachers. I grew up being outside pretty much all day every day and never did the video game scene! I wont lie ive always thought video games were bad for students and that students need to get outside in the real world and solve real world situations! But look forward to seeing more blogs of yours about this book!

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    1. Dr. Miles HarveyJune 27, 2015 at 7:42 PM

      Karisa, don't get me wrong, I am an outside kid too. I was in Boy Scouts for 13 years. I played ice hockey my whole life, and I played ice hockey for UNM for 5 years. I am as outsider like as you can get, but I also enjoyed playing video games just as much as anything else. Start to think of video games in a way that will help you simulate learning. For example, think about dissecting a pig in AP biology in high school - virtually, that can be an example of digital learning through technology which takes itself from things like video games. In video games, we are pretending to be something often times. In the biology example, we are pretending to be scientists, dissecting an animal for learning purposes.

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  2. thegoobJune 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM

    I played video games my whole life. I wonder what this book will have to say. I took a class on how to teach movies to an ELA class. It talked a lot about how the landscape of literacy is changing. where long treatises are giving way to smaller shorter forms of communication. That movies are taking the place of novels and I wonder if the video game aspect will be similar. Keep us posted on what the book is saying. I can't wait.

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    1. Dr. Miles HarveyJune 27, 2015 at 7:44 PM

      That is awesome! When I was going to Cibola High School, I took a film as literature class. My friends all thought it was an easy A class. They were so wrong. It was a tough class to say the least, and I learned a lot from using a different medium to learn language arts and other things. I would love to hear more about your movie class. I'll keep you posted with this book!

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  3. AnonymousJune 26, 2015 at 6:14 PM

    This sounds like a very interesting book selection. I can only imagine what you will find. With the amount of time that kids spend on video games, it would be nice to maybe get some ideas of what teachers can do to use it to their advantage and to get the students to get more then just entertainment from playing.

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    1. Dr. Miles HarveyJune 27, 2015 at 7:47 PM

      Next year, as a teacher at my middle school, I will employ my mobile ipad lab to create a Clash of Clans team for each of my classes. If you have played Clash of Clans, you could understand how fun and beneficial this could be if used for a long period of time. I am excited to put this team-based game to work in my own classroom. I'll talk more on this later, but I wanted to let you know that I have ideas in the works to get kids playing together and learning together - in and out of the classroom.

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  4. UnknownJune 27, 2015 at 4:57 AM

    sounds good. I like the idea of connecting education with something that students love. I think this is a perfect book choice espesially with students in present days.

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  5. UnknownJune 27, 2015 at 4:58 AM

    sounds good. I like the idea of connecting education with something that students love. I think this is a perfect book choice espesially with students in present days.

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  6. UnknownJune 27, 2015 at 4:59 AM

    sounds intersting to me to connect education with games. I think that a perfect book choice. It is agood idea when there is a connection between education and something the students love.

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  7. A Rant to be Proud OfJune 30, 2015 at 8:12 AM

    I love the idea! I look forward to hearing more about it.

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  8. A Rant to be Proud OfJune 30, 2015 at 8:15 AM

    I love the idea! I look forward to hearing more about it.

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