Game On!
Academic Year:
2012 - 2013 (June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013)
Funding Requested:
$489.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
Elementary preservice teachers enrolled in EDU 490 Teaching with Digital Technologies will spend four months exploring how popular video game systems could be used in K-8 teaching and learning. The preservice teachers will spend these months "playing" with the video game systems and evaluating their potential to connect and enhance classroom learning goals. They will report all of their research and experimentation on an iSearch blog (using Kidblog.org) throughout Fall 2012. During the Fall they will develop two lessons plans that would integrate the video game consoles into their student teaching placement, they will present one of these lessons plans at a Gaming Salon in December 2012. Next, the preservice teachers will implement their lesson plans during their student teaching in Winter 2013. Finally the presevice teachers will present their lesson plans, experiences, artifacts, game demonstrations and management ideas at the 2013 MACUL (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) conference in Detroit.