Learning
In this first of three sections, you will be learning about important aspects of teaching with non-digital games.
Required Resources
Important Terms
- Affordances 鈥 considered positives or advantages; it could also mean that something enables something else to happen. An affordance of a fork is that it can allow you to eat food.
- Constraints 鈥 things that are considered negatives or limitations. A constraint of a fork is that it does not allow you to eat soup easily.
- Non-Digital games 鈥 a game that does not require digital devices such as a computer, mobile device, or console.
In September 1969, 妻友社区 began the 1969颅-1970 school year, and the band Crosby, Stills & Nash released the song, 鈥淪uite: Judy Blue Eyes.鈥 The third line of the song pronounces 鈥淚 am yours, you are mine.鈥 As students, we loved the song and the album on which it would appear for its new musical ways, sung to a generation seeking difference to create positive change. Near the end of the school year, on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard unexpectedly and without warning shot and killed four Kent State students and wounded nine others. The bond 鈥斺淚 am your...
ISTE Educator Standards
- 2.1 Learner
- 2.1.c - Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.
- 2.4 Collaborator
- 2.4.d - Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents, and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
- 2.6 Facilitator
- 2.6.a - Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in independent and group settings.
- 2.6.d - Model and nurture creativity and creati
Ohio Learning Standards: Technology
- Varies by grade level
In the southwest corner of South Dakota, on the Nebraska border and at the southern end of the Badlands, sits the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It is home to the Ogalala Lakota Nation. This fall, faculty and students from the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Kent State Salem traveled to the reservation in what has become an almost annual excursion. The COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to the trips over the last three years, which made this return visit quite significant for members of the group. Leading the way was Lorene Martin, program coordinator for the BSN program on the S...