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Publication Date: 2007-Jul
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First Steps and beyond: Serious Games as Preparation for Future Learning
Reese, Debbie Denise
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, v16 n3 p283-300 Jul 2007
Electronic game technologies can prepare novice learners for future learning of complex concepts. This paper describes the underlying instructional design, learning science, cognitive science, and game theory. A structural, or syntactic mapping (structure mapping), approach to game design can produce a game world relationally isomorphic to a targeted complex concept. Such a game world should provide experiential and reflective gameplay to help learners form a preconceptual mental model of the targeted concept. A preparation for future learning (PFL) approach would follow gameplay with direct instruction. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table and 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Game Theory, Cognitive Psychology, Instructional Design, Cognitive Processes, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Concept Mapping, Concept Formation, Video Games, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Language: English
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