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Futuristic games are always a topic of major discussion for people who are looking to what new things we will have in the future.Computer games started with simple ping pong and tennis to be played on a oscilloscope machine in 1958. They slowly started to get more and more advanced until in 1972 Atari was introduced by a man named Nolan Bushwell, who soon created the game pong which was the improved version of a normal ping pong arcade game. Arcade games were gaining in popularity and then skyrocketed even more when Pacman was released in 1980 to be played on a home computer. [] Now that video games are so popular, people are starting to use them to help students to learn more in schools. There is already great feedback from students who have already done things with game based learning, because of that people are trying to make more and more advances in the technology so that kids in future generations can have this great learning tool.

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The main way that teachers are using interactive learning now is through the Smart Board. Adults are also using board and card games to help kids learn in a more fun and interactive way. This increases a students eagerness to learn and therefore gets them better grades. People are using the children's passion to their advantage so they can become better students. Our brains are wired to want to complete a task whether it be a written test or a quest in a video game. There was a study done about this that gave dyslexic children 12 hours of video game time and that proved to do more for their reading skills than a year of spontaneous reading and instruction. [] Games make them care more about what they are doing. Since many children are already immersed in video games for most of their time, teachers are trying to get that effort and care into their schoolwork.

Kids are becoming more interested in learning when it is interactive and involves technology. The advances in this technology is a topic that is gaining popularity in schools everywhere. “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun” as Mary Poppins once said. An innovation game is defined as a game that is fun for kids to play but also has an educational purpose. It is a proven fact that kids would rather play video games than do their homework. Creators of Game based learning continually try to come up with ways to- make learning fun for kids. Game based learning is the future for kids learning. Playing games unleash our imagination and magically cause time to go by. One of the master minds behind game based learning, Luke Hohmann, who came up with this idea for Innovation games are a richer more accurate way to experience learning. Typically, constrains and pressure are brought upon kids while being educated. Exams and studying put unnecessary stress on kids at a young age. This new game experience removes all fear and anxieties about social judgments or perfectionism. Innovation games are proven a better way of learning because when you play these games you will have more creativity and confidence in your work.

Since game based learning is gaining popularity, many people are working to improve them with new technology to help children learn even better. Scientists have been looking at video games from the perspective of a scientist and working to make them available to kids in schools to help them learn. Incredibly popular video games like World of Warcraft are already being used in classrooms. [] Teachers are designing quests for students to complete and learn new things along the way. For example, a teacher made students read J.R.R Tolkien's as they progresses through the game and had them pick a character in the book and make him come to life in the video game.

With more creativity we can have a better tomorrow. “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got” Albert Einstein. In this quote Einstein is trying to say that if you keep doing what you are doing nothing will ever change and you will show no improvement. When you try for something new you can get results that are life changing for generations. Technology has all ready taken over school, now we have colleges that can be accessed through you laptop or computer. You can also take programs or courses online and there can be online tutoring accessible also. Also, there are educational games online already that can reinforce what you have learned. There are virtual flashcards, matching games, and much more that can help you study. With this option, kids are already more intregied and set up to do better on future exams.

There is already major innovation in game based learning but it is a relatively new technology so there is going to be many new innovations for it. Scientist have been talking about making video and computer games that model other popular games but have certain educational aspects of the game. I have tried one of these game based learning games to help my grammar. Not only are these games hard but it is tricky and hard to think. [] this is the link to the website with the help on grammar. This game times you on how fast you can answer the question and also on if you get it right or not. In my personal opinion I found this game challenging my skills and I also feel that this could be a very sucsessful for younger kids to improve.

Game based learning is not only being used for young kids with their childish games but also colleges are using them. Colleges today are using Innovation Games to improve learning for others. The [|University of Wisconsin-Madison]is using Innovation games for as a tool to improve. They are using it as a base line for them too come up with their own innovation games. They have come up with a game called [|Cool It] which is a game for engineering. They also made one called [|Melody Mixer] which allows people who have a music major experiment with different sounds. [|Purdue University] has created a strong base for game based learning classes. Another very good school that is using Innovation Games is the [|University of Oregon]. [|Barnard College] and 5 other colleges were the creator of a game called [|Reacting To the Past],which has been used by over three hundred colleges. In this game student take on the roles of people in history and they try to with discussion and debates with out a script. The way that they University of Oregon falls into this is that they have a strong belief in this game so they offer at least one coarse per semester. The Wharton School,[| University Of Pennsylvania]. This University has been using this in business coarse today. They have made this a integral part of their curriculum rather than an afterthought. Their [|Alfred West Jr Learning Lab] has cared for the development of over 30 games for helping education in economics, finance, legal studies, and management courses. These aren't all of the colleges that use innovation games there are others such as [|Michigan State University], [|University of Central Florida,][|University of Washington] Bothell, [|Mercyhurst College], [|University of Texas at Brownsville], and lastly the [|Northern Ilinois University]. These ten colleges listed are known as the best colleges for game based learning.

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