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The Game Educator’s Handbook

September 22, 2017, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

Country: Finland
Language: English
Source: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Finland
Author: J. TUOMAS HARVIAINEN, VANTAA CITY LIBRARY, LUKEMINEN N.Y.T! PROJECT MIKKO MERILÄINEN, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI TOMMI TOSSAVAINEN, NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL INSTITUTE
Link: http://www.pelikasvatus.fi/gameeducatorshandbook.pdf

This book is intended as an aid for all types of game educators. The target group consists of parents, schools, libraries, youth organisations, and anyone with connections to children, adolescents or adults that play digital games. The aim is to provide expert information, based on research and experience, about what gaming and related phenomena are all about.

This book is a cooperation between gamers, game designers, game educators, researchers and people working with problem gaming, thereby striving for a neutral, objective and helpful end result. When it comes to gaming (as a hobby, a
sport, a profession or a potential source of trouble) there’s so much bias, so many correct or false perceptions, and conflicting comments that we together want to
offer an easily approachable guide. After reading, you will have a better understanding of what gaming is all about, why it interests people, why it’s addictive, and why it’s at the same time good in many ways.

Any form of voluntary activity with collective rules, that includes performing challenging and worthwhile tasks with a distinctive goal or end result, can be regarded as a game. Some like to make a clear distinction between a game and play, or a game and sports, whereas others think they’re all part of the same continuum. Seen from a researcher’s perspective Monopoly, Super Mario Galaxy,
slot machines, playing catch and a boxing match are various forms of gaming. In this book the main focus is on digital games: games that can be played on computers, video game consoles, smartphones and other devices. When we use the term »gamer» we refer to individuals that at least occasionally play digital games, even though they may not define themselves as gamers.

  • : http://www.pelikasvatus.fi/gameeducatorshandbook.pdf
  • : J. TUOMAS HARVIAINEN, VANTAA CITY LIBRARY, LUKEMINEN N.Y.T! PROJECT MIKKO MERILÄINEN, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI TOMMI TOSSAVAINEN, NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL INSTITUTE
  • : MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Finland

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