In short, we are now living in the Creative Society” (Resnick, 2007, p.

Specifically, educators call for the inclusion of creative thinking in modern education: “Success is based not only on what you know or how much we know, but on your ability to think and act creatively. Moreover, while game play may offer significant learning opportunities, educational game construction has been identified as a student-centered constructivist-approach educational improvement (Baytak and Land, 2011, Caperton, 2010, Kafai, 2006). Thus, digital games have been identified as an effective way to engage students in learning (Gee, 2007). Game play is proposed to provide students with deeper conceptual understanding through digital interactions. Motivating students with engaging interactions, they have the capacity to promote learning procedural knowledge that goes beyond the traditional standards-based, declarative knowledge taught in schools that is offered as being a privileged curricula (Shaffer, 2006). Findings suggest that the creative thinking process in student-centered game creation learning approach may provide learners a rich and enjoyable learning experience with the authentic technology use as well as provide for deep, insightful learning.ĭigital games have received interest from educators for their capacity to improve learning. The students experienced positive opportunities for engaging the creative thinking process in synthesizing social issue information for constructing their understanding through the creation of interactive, educational digital games. Interviewing 12 students at with three different levels of game design experience, students in grade 6, 7 and 8, with 1, 2, and 3 years of game design experience respectively, findings suggest that students enjoyed the learning approach as satisfying and engaging, yet technologically challenging. In a case study on middle-school student educational game creation course in south central US state, the students' creative thinking process is investigated in order to understand perceptions of the digital design and programming involved in the game creation learning approach.

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