{"id":141,"date":"2006-03-28T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/28\/games-based-digital-learning\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T21:22:44","slug":"games-based-digital-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/28\/games-based-digital-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Games-Based Digital Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prensky, M. <em>Digital game-based learning<\/em>. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies.<\/p>\n<p>This book is Prensky&#8217;s introduction to games-based learning.  Interesting overview of today&#8217;s gaming generation including the now famous idea about kids being digital natives.  Plus, Prensky is the first person I&#8217;ve read who mentions Csikszentmihalyi and the state of &#8220;flow.&#8221;  In terms of games-based learning, Prensky sees two challenges:  keeping people in the state of flow by making the game just challenging enough and being sure they are still learning as well:  &#8220;In the flow state, the challenges presented and your ability to solve them are almost perfectly matched, and you often accomplish things that you didn&#8217;t think you could, along with a great deal of pleasure&#8221; (p. 124).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prensky, M. Digital game-based learning. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. This book is Prensky&#8217;s introduction to games-based learning. Interesting overview of today&#8217;s gaming generation including the now famous idea about kids being digital natives. Plus, Prensky is the first person I&#8217;ve read who mentions Csikszentmihalyi and the state of &#8220;flow.&#8221; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/28\/games-based-digital-learning\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}