How video games can enrich students’ formal learning

January 1st, 2015 | RESEARCH

Formal readings and lectures are effective at delivering explanations, but the information they impart can be so densely packed and de-contextualized that students may not make full sense of the content. Arena and Schwartz found that video games have the potential to unlock the expository content delivered by lectures, textbooks, and diagrams.

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Nicole Bulalacao, Author, Exploratorium

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Audience: Educators | Teachers | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Undergraduate | Graduate Students
Discipline: Mathematics
Resource Type: Research Brief | Research Products
Environment Type: Games | Simulations | Interactives | Higher Education Programs | Informal | Formal Connections | Media and Technology