Education is always considered as serious stuff. Teachers and parents want to see positive learning outcomes when it comes to activities that relate to education. Games are meant to be playful and entertaining. They are therefore considered opposite of serious education. But a lot of research has been demonstrating how game blended learning can help improve educational outcomes. Combining learning with play is a time-honored technique of getting kids to actually pay attention
 

In a recent book “How computer games help children learn” authored by David Williamson Shaffer (Associate Professor of Learning Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Game Scientist at the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory), Shaffer makes a cogent and compelling argument for the educational power of intelligently crafted games that can serve as tools to help children think and learn about real world problems and their solutions

Shaffer offers practical advice to assist parents and educators to respond to his call to radically transform an increasingly outdated educational system…He argues that education in the 21st century should look beyond traditional learning frameworks and educators must be willing to expand their notions of learning in ways that foster productive inquiry and design in kids.

This groundbreaking book raises fundamental issues concerning the goals of education and highlights the need for innovative thinkers in the 21st century. Shaffer describes a wide range of fascinating new learning games that are just now emerging…Because these games give children the chance to creatively manipulate a virtual world, they can teach creativity and innovation, abilities that are more important than ever in today’s competitive global economy
 

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