{"id":3949,"date":"2014-06-28T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:46:33","slug":"games-in-the-classroom-what-the-research-says-mindshift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/06\/28\/games-in-the-classroom-what-the-research-says-mindshift\/","title":{"rendered":"Games In The Classroom: What the Research Says | MindShift"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/06\/games-in-the-classroom-what-the-research-says\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29\">Games In The Classroom: What the Research Says | MindShift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, this is an encouraging article.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t agree with the SRI report&#8217;s definition of simulations vs games. It shortchanges both simulations and games in that games are about more than points, currencies, and levels, and simulations can indeed use points and levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/06\/games-in-the-classroom-what-the-research-says\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6660098369_640ec3fb64_z-e1403817664851.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3949'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3949);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3949);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3949);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Games In The Classroom: What the Research Says | MindShift. On the whole, this is an encouraging article. However, I don&#8217;t agree with the SRI report&#8217;s definition of simulations vs games. It shortchanges both simulations and games in that games &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/06\/28\/games-in-the-classroom-what-the-research-says-mindshift\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,24],"tags":[41,225],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-game-based-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}