{"id":40,"date":"2014-11-29T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:21:39","slug":"engaging-learners-through-interactive-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/engaging-learners-through-interactive-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Learners Through Interactive Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horton, L., Liu, M., Olmanson, J., &amp; Toprac, P. (2011). <strong>Engaging Learners through Interactive Media: Findings and Implications from a Technology Enhanced Problem-Based Learning Environment.<\/strong> <em>Online Submission<\/em>, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, Apr 8-12, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>This paper looks into students\u2019 engagement with media in enhanced problem-based learning environments. It investigates the environments that encourage and facilitate learning and what element students found necessary to their learning. The study was with 180 sixth grade students and the students were given a task of saving aliens as the role of a scientist (Horten, 2011). The problem engaged the students with the subject and highlighted the problem solving elements of the game. There was eleven key elements that described increased student motivation: authenticity, challenge, cognitive engagement, competence, choice, fantasy, identity, interactivity, novelty, sensory engagement, and social relations (Horten, 2011). These all grouped into sources of intrinsic motivation \u2013 problem solving, socializing, playing, information processing, and voluntary acting (Horten, 2011). This study works with other articles using video or computer games to engage student with material. The responses of the students after playing the game were insightful and knowledgeable about planets, the solar system, atmosphere, and other scientific concepts. Teachers can have access to these types of games in the classroom to help engage students with the material.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this article was useful in the breakdown of the key elements that are engaged when using the technology in the class. This is directly relevant to teachers looking to use similar methods in their class and helps to create assessment options around those elements. I think the article would have been more useful if it had gone into more specifics around the software used but it was useful to have an article that focused more on the benefits in terms of engagement. I think that teachers could use this article in combination with one of the others to combine to help create an assessment method for using this type of technology in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horton, L., Liu, M., Olmanson, J., &amp; Toprac, P. (2011). Engaging Learners through Interactive Media: Findings and Implications from a Technology Enhanced Problem-Based Learning Environment. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, Apr 8-12, 2011). This paper looks into students\u2019 engagement with media in enhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/empenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}