{"id":11660,"date":"2025-09-01T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:03:39","slug":"mobile-games-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/01\/mobile-games-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Mobile-Games-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0A \u00a0new\u00a0generation of learners has\u00a0difficulty sitting still in a classroom listening to a teacher lecture, and do not have the patience to read a novel, yet they can sit and play a video game for hours. Through<strong>\u00a0mobile games<\/strong>\u00a0they can memorize move combinations, navigate\u00a0maps with ease, and create complex worlds. Traditionally digital games have been &#8216;closed&#8217;, in the sense that the experiences were limited to the world created by the game developers, but now, with AI, gaming experience can be open, essential infinite, and personal, perhaps indistinguishable from real world experience.  On a more philosophical level, every dimension of real life can be characterized as a game (going to the store, having dinner with friends, baking bread, etc.) so mobile intelligence introduces the possibility of the augmented gamification of everything we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration:<\/strong>&nbsp;With the concept of&nbsp;<strong>mobile games<\/strong>&nbsp;in mind, authentic educational games for a variety of topics or subjects&nbsp;are&nbsp;being developed&nbsp;for the mobile user \u2013 whether it is integrated into a collaborative&nbsp;classroom experience, or an on-the-go way of learning.&nbsp;<strong>Mobile Games<\/strong>&nbsp;could become essential&nbsp;for many kinds of learning contexts, and for reaching those learners who have difficulty in a traditional learning setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion:\u00a0\u00a0A \u00a0new\u00a0generation of learners has\u00a0difficulty sitting still in a classroom listening to a teacher lecture, and do not have the patience to read a novel,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/01\/mobile-games-8\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Games<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions\/11674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}