Mr' Flix Coln Instructional Systems Specialist, Lackland AFB

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Welcome to
The Gaming Debate

• By
• Mr. Félix Colón Instructional Systems
  Specialist, Lackland AFB
• Mr. Jeremy Koester Alamo Heights JS Math Teacher
• Dr. Patricia McGee Associate Professor of
  Instructional Technology at UTSA

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True or False All educational games are PC based
False
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games
Educational games are ______, _____ and _____
games, including _____ games designed to teach
about a certain subject, expand concepts,
reinforce development, understand an historical
event or culture, or assist in learning a skill.
board
card
video
Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational5
Fgame
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_____ has been using educational board games
since over 5,000 years ago
China
Source http//road.uww.edu/ROAD/jonesd/games/game
sarticle.doc
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Non-lethal rounds help provide realism to
training games for Security Forces at Lackland AFB
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Learning tool games started surfacing in the
U.S. by late 19_0's/early 19_0's
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Source http//road.uww.edu/ROAD/jonesd/games/game
sarticle.doc
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According to an American Scientist article,
multimedia and instructional games are
responsible for internationally rising
Hint
IQ Scores
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Interactive Electronic Technical Manual
(IETM) Vehicle Maintenance school, Lackland AFB,
is studying the use of IETM as a training tool
for group or individual training.
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Brøderbund, The Learning Company, and Minnesota
Educational Computing Consortium are pioneers of
the PC educational software period (19_0-19_0)
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Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_s
oftwareEarly_History.2C_1940s_-_1970s
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In 1951 we learned from an animated turtle named
Bert to "Duck and Cover"
In the 1970's we were urged by Woodsy Owl to
"Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute"
Today Unicef promotes "Become a Unicef World
Hero," via an instructional game available on
their site.
Source http//road.uww.edu/ROAD/jonesd/games/game
sarticle.doc
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Project MindStorms fourth-graders program
computers thinking of shapes and how to fit them
together. Writing programs in LOGO, means using
mathematics.
Source http//www.papert.org/articles/const_inst/
const_inst1.html
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Saving Sergeant Pabletti
Role-playing software program created to educate
young Army soldiers the Importance of Army Core
Values and the potential effect these values
have on their lives and careers.
It is still being used today to train
approximately _____ soldiers a year.
80,000
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Simulation Games have been found to be most
effective in encouraging discovery learning where
the system provides two kinds of instructional
support learner-requested background information
and elaborate system-initiated advice (Leutner
1993).
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Information-processing educational game
components designed to imitate popular PC games
have been found to help poor readers make
significant learning gains, with the greatest
improvement shown by the poorest readers
(Schwartz 1988) and resource-deprived learners
(Herselman 1999).
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Computer games have been particularly effective
in raising achievement levels of both children
and adults in areas such as mathematics and
language, where specific objectives can easily be
stated (Randel et al. 1992)
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Sim Syndrome

• A new term for the loss of peripheral sight and
  awareness because of full concentration on a PC
  monitor. This has proven to be detrimental when
  teaching tactics skills via PC, training
  games/simulations, to combatants or law
  enforcement.

Source 2004 Interservice/Industry Training,
Simulation and Education Conference
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Games have been use to treat attention deficit,
resulting in improved scanning and tracking
(Larose et al. 1989). It was found beneficial if
the game becomes progressively more difficult as
attention gains (Pope and Bogart 1996).
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Games and Therapy
Games have been used for cognitiveattention
distraction (e.g. in treating pain and nausea).
Used, for example, with patients suffering from
the effects of a stroke or burns or with children
undergoing chemotherapy (Vasterling et al. 1993).
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Full Spectrum Warrior
This game was first developed for the U.S. Army
with close support from the Army Infantry School
at Fort Benning to ensure content fidelity. It
later became available to the public.
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Quest for Saddam was introduced in 2003
Quest for Bush was introduced in 2006
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In 1983 this movie presented us with a military
computer wanting to play thermonuclear war games
Last Hint
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The Incident, A role-playing game developed with
the FBI's Crisis Negotiations Unit, used to
train Crisis Negotiations Techniques
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Knowledge Probe Inc offers free educational
games. http//www.kprobe.com/kprobe/mathgames.htm
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The first city-building educational simulator
game used in urban studies classes was ___________
Utopia (1982)
It was later replaced by _____________
SimCity (1989)
SimCity 4
Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_s
oftwareEarly_History.2C_1940s_-_1970s
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What was the total cost associated with
developing the Armys Full Spectrum combat
training game series?
45 Million