{"id":14273,"date":"2015-01-30T06:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:20:52","slug":"digital-games-in-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/digital-games-in-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Digital Games Enhance the Learning Process?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Depositphotos_24112557_xs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-14274 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Depositphotos_24112557_xs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Siblings playing video games on the floor\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" border=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Depositphotos_24112557_xs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Depositphotos_24112557_xs.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Research done in 2013 showed that students who learned with video games had greater cognitive competencies than students instructed without them. A discussion about can video games help students learn, and can they help students learn better, has been\u00a0 going on for more than a decade. Research today is increasingly proving that video games can enhance the learning process.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, it is essential that teachers equip themselves with knowledge of these teaching tools. Gamification, game-based learning, app-based learning and simulation are areas that can impact our curriculum. Students live in a world of technology and it is not surprising to see that they learn better through these interactions. A decade ago, only a few teachers were talking about using games in the classroom. Today, many more schools have adopted this approach and it\u2019s time for more teachers to consider how to bring digital games into classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Click here( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/assets\/pdf\/news\/MindShift-GuidetoDigitalGamesandLearning.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/assets\/pdf\/news\/MindShift-GuidetoDigitalGamesandLearning.pdf<\/a> )to view a detailed resource on how digital games\u00a0 are used for learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s discuss:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> What are your thoughts about using digital games in learning?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Research done in 2013 showed that students who learned with video games had greater cognitive competencies than students instructed without them. A discussion about can video games help students learn, and can they help students learn better, has been\u00a0 going on for more than a decade. Research today is increasingly proving that video [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7626,"featured_media":14274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[201,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14291,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/14291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}