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Sustainable Development Goals in education is such a fascinating area of current research, and overlaps with the already well established area of education and education scholarship more familiar to most as 'global learning'.
Sustainable Development Goals in education is such a fascinating area of current research, and overlaps with the already well established area of education and education scholarship more familiar to most as 'global learning'.
It's such an important area for environmental and sustainability educators to engage with, but it can seem quite distant - we never hear about it. So, to help, here is the beginning of an ongoing log and summary of research papers, case studies and niche areas of practice (here the niche first on the list is 'serious gaming' pedagogies) and innovation.
Guest blogger to get started is local AAEE member, a lapsed science high school teacher and a AAEE ACT Chapter executive member, Jodie Green.
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First up to share with you is a free book just released by Springer Education: "Educating Students to Improve the World" Authors (view affiliations), Fernando M. Reimers. Download it here for free: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-3887-2
First up to share with you is a free book just released by Springer Education: "Educating Students to Improve the World" Authors (view affiliations), Fernando M. Reimers. Download it here for free: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-3887-2
I have been looking at another recent release, this time employing the serious-educational and serious-social game pedagogy, Real Lives, which has just released a cloud version of this popular game with added Sustainable Development Goals education features.
This game is still the only one featuring the SDGs in its game play (but not for long, watch this space), while still also enjoying a serious popularity and gaming ranking. It's just fun. But also educational. What's more, it builds empathy, through the gaming experience.
Digging a bit deeper into why educators are using RealLives to support curriculum. and this is what a search reveals - a fair bit of analysis, rave reviews and even that rarest of things ... proper educational impact testing.
For now, these will be merely the start of list of papers reviewing Real Lives, and then later on a review of each paper along with its abstract. This will be useful for those teachers who like me will probably follow this resource and its developing community of educators pretty closely, and perhaps even incorporate it in teaching to support curriculum (student licenses are very cheap).
- 2009 Teacher Candidates’ Views of Digital Games as Learning Devices Nancy B. Sardone Georgian Court University Roberta Devlin-Scherer Seton Hall, Issues in Teacher Education Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2009 University. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ858505.pdf
- 2010 Games for Social Studies Education William R. Watson in Playing Games https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~brwatson/publications/Watson_2010_SocialStudies_GAMING.pdf
- 2004 Crogan – Real Lives 2004: the Devil You know... Junctures, 11Dec 2008 https://reallivesworld.com/siteassets/research-papers/Crogan_The_Devil_You_Know.pdf
- 2012 Simulating REAL LIVES: Promoting Global Empathy and Interest in Learning Through Simulation Games, Christine M. Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos and Chad Raphael Simulation Gaming published online 20 January 2012 DOI: 10.1177/1046878111432108, The online version of this article can be found at: http://sag.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/17/1046878111432108
- A.J. Voortman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Serious Games Learning skills by means of computer games, https://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/create/local/material/serious-games.pdf
- Computer-based life simulations and young adolescents: Identity exploration, information learning, and sense-making Kallen Tsikalas ktsikalas@gmail.com https://reallivesworld.com/siteassets/research-papers/Kallen_Tsikalas_RealLives_ResearchPaper_2008.pdf
- Marcus Schulzke, State University of New York at Albany ( a Review of RealLives) https://reallivesworld.com/siteassets/research-papers/Marcus%20Schulzke%20Paper%20on%20ReaLives.pdf
- 2014 Serious Games for education and training in
International Journal of Serious Games Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v1i1.11 . Alessandro De Gloria, Francesco Bellotti,Riccardo Berta, Elisa Lavagnino University of Genoa, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286244094_Serious_Games_for_education_and_training
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