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Digital Game-Based Learning Paperback – March 1, 2007

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Today's workforce is quicker, sharper, more visually oriented, and more technology-savvy than ever. To truly benefit from the Digital Natives' learning power and enthusiasm, traditional training methods must adapt to the way people learn today. Written by the founder of Games2train, this innovative book is filled with examples and information to meet the demands of both educators and employers.

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Paragon House; Paragon House Ed edition (March 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1557788634
ISBN-13: 978-1557788634
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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Too evangelical

ByA customeron September 3, 2003

Format: Hardcover

This book reads like a wired magazine article. Its envagelical tone betrays a decidely unacademic agenda. At times it feels like you are reading a brochure for Prensky's company rather than an objective evaluation of the capabilities and possiblities of Game-Based Learning. It rarely considers contrarian points of view and when it does, only in passing. That being said, it does contains some interesting ideas. Unfortunately, there are not enough ideas to warrant the book's heft, and the few ideas that it does contain are elaborated and repeated ad naseum. Prensky is unabashed by this and readily admits it in the intro: "You will find thoughout this book that many of the key ideas are repepated and illustrated in different ways and examples. This repetition is deliberate. Winston Churchhill counseled that "if you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-- a tremendous whack ". It appears that this quote is more of a justification though than a reason because he later ironically criticizes such reduncacy in corporate training materials: "There was at one time a company that specialized in reducing the length of corporate tapes so they could be listened to more easily. They were typically able to get an hour's lecture or speech down to 10 or even 5 minutes of real content." I feel that the same could easily be said for this book through more aggressive editing. Furthermore, the various chapters often feel disjointed as if they were constructed as atomic articles (or pieced together from such), rather than as parts of an integrated whole. And I am generous in attributing the original source to articles. My suspicion, based on Prensky's copious overuse of bullet-lists, are that many of the chapters had their odious origins within powerpoint slides. He also too often relies on quotations as support for his views when the people being quoted are not credible academic authorities but rather people running companies with a similar agenda to Prensky.

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Hidden message in the book

ByA customeron October 2, 2001

Format: Hardcover

The content would make a good magazine article because the author does make some good observations and recommendations -- but there isn't nearly enough content here for 400+ pages. I hope the games the author writes/produces aren't as boring and repetitious as parts of his book.
There are only a few poorly done illustrations, which I found puzzling given the visual nature of games. Instead of a lot of verbal hand-wringing about all the unwashed who "just don't get it" when it comes to the teaching power of games, a few compelling examples would have more impact.
Having built games for teaching and research in the corporate world, I wish the author had spent more time on how to build and maintain good games for really complicated topics. There are a few examples in the book of multi-million dollar military simulation games, but a lot of the other examples seem trivial when applied to genuine corporate needs.
Most striking about the examples from the corporate world, however, is the small number of successes and miniscule number of repeated successes. Those few souls who have built successful, non-trivial corporate training games appear to have a hard time repeating that success. This is not a good sign, but it's the hidden (and certainly unintended) message in the book.

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A book that, attempting to be about digital games and their learning value, is about neither.

ByI. Gameson December 4, 2005

Format: Hardcover

When I first got this book, I was hoping to find a much needed argument in favor of the learning and educational benefits of games. Instead I found a lackluster series of marketing-like evangelisms that have neither valid science nor learning theory to back them up. By using a sales-pitch approach in an attempt to convince the reader, this book can do more damage than good to the field of educational videogame design and research. If one really wants to find out about what games have to tell us about learning, I would recommend Jim Gee's What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy book instead.

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Digital version not well done

ByA customeron January 7, 2004

Format: Hardcover

Always enjoyed the hardcoved edition (5 stars). Recently downloaded the Adobe Acrobat version and found it lacking the functions to efficiently read it on a mobile device with Acrobat Reader for Palm Devices. Publisher failed to tag the file to allow jumps from the Table of Contents to the referenced page. The pagination is also 18 pages off. I would not recommend the digital version if there are plans to read it with a mobile device.

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An important book but it with severe flaws

BySimon Egenfeldt-nielsenon July 23, 2006

Format: Paperback

Prensky's book had a great impact and have many good things in it, but one become annoyed by the lack of documentation, hype and comlete ignorance of much previous research. The subjectivity gives it a spark but in the (too) long book it becomes too much, getting in the way of solid arguments and evidence.

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50+ Ways that Video Games have Educated

ByMichael Brimon January 4, 2001

Format: Hardcover

Looking at this book, and the price. You think that it's some type of scam to increase some type of video game's sales. But this is more like a Chicken Soup for the Gamers Soul. It tells many ways on how video games have educated people around the world. From foreigners learning how to speak English by playing English RPG's, to a kid who learned to drive by playing racing games.
Mr. Prensky demenstrates how all video games require some strategic planning in able to beat the game. That brings up creative thinking for the younger video game players.
This game lists off many reasons on why Video Games are NOT degrading, are NOT time wasting, along with many more reasons. The book got a star knocked off because the book doesn't stick to one main idea. It's a bunch of good, unique, brilliant ideas, however it's not a good idea to put two different unique idea's together. Not saying that this book should have came out in a series, but should have consisted of similar experiences in different chapters. The book covers a lot of bases, but not in a very professional way.
Some examples that were sent in by readers are available in the January 2001 issue of Nintendo Power at newstands now. To view those letters, turn to page 8, "Players Pulse".

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This book is terribly structured! Unlike those well structured textbooks

I rated 2 stars because this book is poorly structured. I bought this book because its name attracted me. But I only read a little more than 10% of the book and then abandoned it.Read more

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Bad kindle version

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I'm currently doing my dissertation on serious gaming in Spanish second language acquisition, so I decided to read this book that was cited by a lot of other authors.

Published on July 27, 2013 by Arthur Wendorf

A Revolution That Needs to Growing!

Prensky has introduced an idea that should be revolutionizing even elementary education. As a professional educator, I have seen the need as well as the possibilities for...Read more

Published on April 24, 2013 by Amazon Customer

But..what do you have to learn?

The book doesn't explain what you shoul learn, and the flaws of online learning. Much people don't finish the courses, don't read it really, cheat and a lot of things.

Published on December 27, 2008 by Rafael Lopez Callejon

A Must Read for all educators

This book opened my eyes to the new requirements for the New/Next generation to be engaged and connected to learning. It contains great practical reference material too.

Published on May 19, 2007 by Alistair B. Pentreath

It's about the learning...

This is an interesting book because it's not so much about games as it is about learning (maybe that's why one reviewer found it boring).Read more

Published on July 23, 2002 by noname

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