Karly's+Lit+Review

Summary of Literature: From what I have understood throughout my research, games are another way to bring into educational curriculum. Effective games involve creative thinking, intense concentration, providing solution to challenges, research skills, and collaborating with other players while using diverse experiences to achieve a common goal. Moreover, because games are still in its beginning we will reveal its current movements.

Literature Gap (something that has not yet been researched):

Research Purpose: Because technology is becoming a stronger tool in education, the purpose for this research is to understand how GBL has be evolving throughout its short life span, to reveal its current status in education and learning environments, and how its strengths overcame its past challenges, in addition to foresee its potential ability to improve learning environments in the upcoming future.

Significance: The significance to this research is high. According to valuable research, games overall manifest interesting learning trends. Before games were implemented for educational use they were specifically targeted to consumers to help identify the areas that made games appealing to players of a wide range of ages and backgrounds of both gender. Although games have had their fair share of difficulties they have also shown to have the capacity to reveal the players ability to problem-solve, accurately track each player's reward, allow fleixibility to control and create his/her own story line, keep gamers attention for a long period of time, provide alternative ways to overcome challenges, communicate/socialize with other players, and provide immediate feedback. Surely, it is evident these qualities are also signficant to effective learning, and should be emulated for educational purposes. Throughout the research we will explain how GBL can effectively engage a learner using digital material.

Research Questions for our proposed study: Why choose GBL vs traditional learning environments? What are the benefits of GBL in learning evnivornments? What are the challenges that GBL is currently facing? What kind of future will GBL provide to education (K-12)?