Game on !

The answers for questions 2 and three in “Evolution in the classroom : What Teachers need to know about the Video Game Generation”.

 If my students are the video game generation, I would use a more computer based learning activities. I will bring them to the computer lab and learn English trough educational computer games. There are many educational computer games in the market nowadays that provides adventurous problem-solving methods. But before that, I will explain to them clearly upon the instruction of the game, the objective of playing the game and the reinforcement they will gain at the end of the class. The games would be played individually and they are in control because from the article, I can conclude that the gamer generations want to be in command of their ‘journey’ and learning is definitely a journey they could be in control of. They too prefer rewards, and at the end of every game, there are rewards so that they not only gain knowledge, but they will also gain self-satisfaction. Other than that, I will provide these students with concrete examples such as videos or experiments so that they can trigger their senses of sight, hearing, and touch to make learning easier for them.

The learning theory of this teaching approaches that I could conclude is the Skinners “Stimulus-Response” theory because it involves triggering senses in learning. Just like the gamers generation, they want to be given a trigger to work on the problem, they will work on how to solve the problem which then lead them to an award after each task. After many trials, they learn unintentionally on the subject or values taught. The knowledge then would not have applied if the students have no skills or intelligence in different scopes. Therefore, Howard Gardner’s “Multiple intelligence” could also be implemented because different people have different abilities and intelligence and the theory shows that everyone has their own intelligence. 


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