‘Thinking Through’ Games in the Classroom: Using Discursive Game Design to Play and Engage with Historical Datasets

Understanding Computational Thinking before Programming: Developing Guidelines for the Design of Games to Learn Introductory Programming through Game-Play

This paper outlines an innovative game-based approach to learning introductory programming that is grounded in the development of computational thinking at an abstract conceptual level, but also provides a direct contextual relationship between game-play and learning traditional introductory programming. The paper proposes a possible model for, and guidelines in support of, this games-based app...

CTArcade : Learning Computational Thinking While Training AI Through Game Play

In this paper we describe a web application framework for developing games that teach users about computational thinking and the preliminary research that led to its creation. CTArcade was developed to be the foundation for a library of several challenging games that engage the users’ innate computational thinking (CT) skills. These skills are employed when the users are asked to teach an artif...

Using the WebQuest to engage learners in the online classroom.

the relationship between emotional intelligence, willingness to communicate in the classroom and learners’ beliefs about language learning: iranian efl learners in focus

یکی از زمینه های تحقیقاتی در حال پیشرفت، هوش عاطفی است که دارای پتانسیل بالایی برای به کار گیری در سیستم آموزشی می باشد که اخیرامرکز توجه تحقیقات روانشناسی آموزشی قرار گرفته است. این مطالعه تلاش می کند تا به بررسی ارتباط بین هوش عاطفی ، تمایل به برقراری ارتباط در کلاس درس و نگرش زبان آموزان نسبت به یادگیری زبان بپردازد. به منظور رسیدن به این هدف تعداد138 زبان آموز به طور تصادفی انتخاب شدند. سپس...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...