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Here's an overview of some studies in edutainment I found: http://www.itu.dk/~sen/papers/game-overview.pdf http://www.itu.dk/~sen/papers/game-overview.pdf There
by Jach 14y ago
Here's an overview of some studies in edutainment I found: http://www.itu.dk/~sen/papers/game-overview.pdf http://www.itu.dk/~sen/papers/game-overview.pdf There are a few more hits via Scholar. As one might expect, results are mixed, the experimental design is usually shoddy, and there are lots of variables unaccounted for.
Anecdotally, I liked playing Number Munchers in my elementary school and I was in a high percentile of my class and district on all the standardized tests. My peers played it too, but they still struggled, especially later on in junior high and high school.
- SamuelMulder 14y agoDragon Box is fairly different than any other math edutainment I've seen. Most of them are thinly disguised exercises in calculation. Dragon Box focuses on learning the abstract relationships first. Actually, I think it would be an interesting game to introduce in a college level abstract algebra class.
- stfu 14y agoThanks for posting the overview paper. I wish there were more meta papers summarizing research on subjects like these. I am a big fan of annotated bibliographies but it is often quite tricky to collect them as most journals are at best just publishing literature reviews.