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I pulled this together by combining two previous papers and whittling it down to “one page.” This section may expand again to look very like those papers when it appears in my dissertation with supporting citations. However, I may wind up cutting this section altogether in order to maintain a tighter focus in the dissertation. …
Ok, the titles of these posts were getting a little long… this one could easily have been “Role Playing in Table Top RPGs, MMORPGs, and Education” or something like that, but the role playing is the important part. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I’m discussing the topic in the context of using video …
If you are familiar with his work, it will come as no surprise that this section draws heavily from David Freeman’s Creating Emotion in Games. Sheri Graner Ray’sGender Inclusive Game Design was another influential source. This section took longer to pull together, though, because many of my other sources were scattered throughout my outliner – …
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Well, I know I’m automatically on this ice with this topic – on account of being a middle-class middle-sized American white guy who knows next to nothing of his ancestor’s cultures. ;) Regardless, my thinking has been heavily influenced by the likes of Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, Sheri Graner Ray, and others, including Nick …
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This one seems more vague than the others I’ve written so far (and I feel it is the least worthy of the “in a nutshell” title), but I suppose I had a lot of ground to cover. Not to worry, it will be heavy with supporting examples and references in the longer version (for the …
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This “one-pager” is slightly different than the ones that have come before. This one will include very few, if any, references to constructivist theorists in the final (longer) version. There will, however, be references to educational technologists and (especially) video game scholars. In addition, much of it will be supported with specific examples. This is …
Again, I suppose this should be titled “Social Change in a Constructivist Learning Environment.” In any case, this post follows of the format of the “Nutshell” overviews that have preceded it. Like the others references to constructivist theorists, educational technologists, and video game scholars will be offered throughout this piece. Actually I suspect that nearly …
This is the overview of the second to last section in the heart of my dissertation. The version that appears in the dissertation will be well supported by citations of constructivist theorists, educational technologists, and video game scholars. This will occur at each step of the way, so the video game section won’t be segregated …
Since it’s not evident in the title, I should point out that this post continues my series of “one-page” overviews that explain important properties of a constructivist learning environment (as part of the writing process for the literature review of my dissertation). Like the other overviews, this one will soon be fleshed out with detailed …
I was surprised to discover that my notes for this section were much more limited, and consequently this overview is a bit shorter than the others, and in places more specific. Again, the specific supporting citations will reappear later in the longer version, which of course I’ll post here when I’m done with it. Meanwhile, …
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