Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?

IF 1.8 4区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Bradley Bereitschaft
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a review of the literature on the use of commercially available city building games (CBGs), such as SimCity and Cities: Skylines, as learning tools in classroom instruction. Given the ubiquity and popularity of digital games, particularly among young people, instructors in a variety of fields and at various academic levels have begun to consider using these media to motivate and advance student learning. CBGs challenge students to design and build economically viable virtual cities; a task expected to promote systems and critical thinking, as well as the acquisition and use of knowledge regarding urban geography, politics, and planning. Overall, the findings thus far are primarily positive, and suggest that commercial CBGs can be used to address a variety of learning objectives. For geography in particular, CBGs have demonstrated potential in helping students understand and apply geographic concepts, as well as develop spatial reasoning and creativity. In the concluding sections I propose an agenda for future work examining the role and effectiveness of CBGs in pedagogy, and provide a set of recommendations for instructors looking to use CBGs in the classroom.
商业城市建设游戏作为教学工具:我们学到了什么?
本文回顾了将《模拟城市》(SimCity)和《城市:天际线》(Cities: Skylines)等商业城市建设游戏(cbg)作为课堂教学工具的相关文献。鉴于数字游戏的普遍性和受欢迎程度,特别是在年轻人中,各个领域和学术水平的教师已经开始考虑使用这些媒体来激励和促进学生的学习。CBGs要求学生设计和建造经济上可行的虚拟城市;这项任务旨在促进系统和批判性思维,以及获取和使用有关城市地理,政治和规划的知识。总体而言,迄今为止的研究结果主要是积极的,并表明商业CBGs可用于解决各种学习目标。特别是在地理方面,CBGs已经证明了帮助学生理解和应用地理概念,以及发展空间推理和创造力的潜力。在结语部分,我提出了未来研究CBGs在教育学中的作用和有效性的工作议程,并为希望在课堂上使用CBGs的教师提供了一套建议。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Geography in Higher Education ( JGHE) was founded upon the conviction that the development of learning and teaching was vitally important to higher education. It is committed to promote, enhance and share geography learning and teaching in all institutions of higher education throughout the world, and provides a forum for geographers and others, regardless of their specialisms, to discuss common educational interests, to present the results of educational research, and to advocate new ideas.
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