{"id":131,"date":"2019-12-19T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/?p=131"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:02:09","slug":"gaming-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2019\/12\/19\/gaming-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-368x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-368x490.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2019\/12\/IMG_3850-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"XzvDs _208Ie _1dH_e blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _3ZX8L _1dH_e\">This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. The author emphasizes designing curricular games for problem-solving and warns against designing games that are simply \u201cAlex Trebek (host of Jeopardy) wearing a mask.\u201d By drawing on multiple fields such as systems thinking, design theory, assessment, and curriculum design, this book relies on theory to generate techniques for practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XzvDs _208Ie _1dH_e blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _3ZX8L _1dH_e\">Call Number: 371.33 K294G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. The author emphasizes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2019\/12\/19\/gaming-the-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71717],"tags":[202970,2292,46484,96],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba","tag-designing-games","tag-game","tag-information-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}