Your Child Loves To Play Video Games Turn It Into Learning Opportunity
Your Child Loves To Play Video Games Turn It Into Learning Opportunity
Your Child Loves To Play Video Games Turn It Into Learning Opportunity
By Umang Jain
May 5, 2020
Summary
What if we could apply the same technology approaches and techniques used by the most popular video games to education, turning learning into children's favourite new game?
According to a recent study, 74 per cent of teachers report using digital games for instruction and of those, 71 per cent report that game-based learning has been effective in improving their students' mathematics learning.
Games have the power to change learning from an act of passively receiving information to an active pursuit of it.
Unlike a normal lesson, a fun yet challenging game makes learners want to come back and play every day.
Today, gamification is giving way to a more effective and evolved means to incorporate games in education: game-based learning.
While gamification makes regular learning fun through extrinsic motivators like points or badges, game-based learning uses a game to teach even difficult concepts in a fun and engaging way.
With game-based learning, students learn on their own in an environment where they are willing to persevere, solve problems and derive connections that would lead to long-lasting learning outcomes.
This knowledge helps de-stigmatize game-based learning among educators who may have viewed digital games as a learning deterrent in the past.
Metaari's yearly Global Game-Based Learning Market report predicts that the game-based learning market will quadruple in size to over $24 billion in revenue by 2024.
A child's daily digital game habit already gives them unique skills, but parents and educators alike can introduce them to games that utilize those skills to help them learn and even build toward their future careers.
Reference
Jain, U. (2020, May 5). Your Child Loves To Play Video Games, Turn It Into Learning Opportunity. Retrieved May 6, 2020, from http://bweducation.businessworld.in/article/Your-Child-Loves-To-Play-Video-Games-Turn-It-Into-Learning-Opportunity/05-05-2020-191203/