Reading+Materials

=Reading Materials for the //Videogames and Simulations in the Classroom// Course=

Simpson, Elizabeth and Clem, Virginia. (2008). Video games in the middle school classroom. //Middle School Journal, 39//(4), 4-11. http://nmsa.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/March2008/Article1/tabid/1627/Default.aspx

Evaluating Educational Potential in a COTS Game http://www.mackenty.org/index.php/site/comments/evaluting_educational_potential_in_a_cots_game/

SimSchool's List of Reading Resources http://simschoolresources.edreform.net/portal/simschoolresources/simulations

Prensky, Marc. The Seven Games of Highly Effective People, How playing computer games helps you succeed in school, work and life. http://simschoolresources.edreform.net/resource/11084

Serious Games Course using MEGA http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/SeriousGamesIncorporating/39986?time=1214097560

VanEck's Handout

Stansberry & Simpson games book chapter

Essential Questions

Links to Games and Simulations Sites

Class Activities

Syllabus