PdF:SZ7BP_PHAE Computer Games and Education - Course Information
SZ7BP_PHAE Computer Games and Education
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Patrik Vacek (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Oldřich Šimoník, CSc.
Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Patrik Vacek - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- SZ7BP_PHAE/01: Thu 7:55–9:35 učebna 34, P. Vacek
- Prerequisites
- Helpful and prejudice-free approach to computer games and its possible use within educational process.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech Language and Literature for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Voice Education for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Piano for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Music for Education (programme PdF, B-MA)
- Music for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - French Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - German Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - Russian Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in History (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Music (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Music (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Chemistry (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Christian Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Natural Science (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Natural Science (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Special Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Special Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Special Education - Inclusion Study (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Technology and IT Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Technology and IT Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Health Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Arts (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Special Education - Inclusion Study (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Special Education (programme PdF, B-SPD)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Special Education - Inclusion Study (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Special Education for Education (programme PdF, B-MA)
- Special Education for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Special Education for Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Pre-school Teacher Training (programme PdF, B-PMP)
- Primary School Teacher Training (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
- Visual Arts for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Art for Education (programme PdF, B-MA)
- Arts for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Basics of Social Studies for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Basics of Social Studies for Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain problems of the use of computer games in education; create their own methodical material for practical use in the class; discuss the problem and make reasoned decisions about the computer games and education agenda.
- Syllabus
- 1. Early years: mainframes and computer game pioneers. 2. Game culture in 1980s and 1990s. 8bits and entering of computer game culture into households. 3. Concurrent educational and aesthetic potential of computer games. 4. Computer games and plastic arts; theory and history of visuality within computer game culture. 5. Game industry economy and self-reflexive tendencies within the industry: principal game designers, studios and gamers. 6. Cult games and seriality in games: reception isssues. 7. Game genres: RPG, strategies, 3D FPS, 2D action games, simulations, platform games, adventures, computer games and cinema. 8. Computer games and education. 9. Adventures and RPGs as an analogy for current literature; computer games and foreign languages learning. 10. Computer games, history and cultural geography. 11. Playing logic games/puzzles as a specific journey towards IQ development. 12. Violence, racisms and ideology in computer games: a call for actual use of civic education. 13. Final assessment and discussion.
- Literature
- GEE, James Paul. What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 225 s. ISBN 1403965382. info
- The video game theory reader. Edited by Bernard Perron - Mark J. P. Wolf. London: Routledge, 2009, xix, 430. ISBN 9780415962834. info
- ATKINS, Barry. More than a game : the computer game as fictional form. New York: Manchester University Press, 2003, 170 s. ISBN 0719063655. info
- MORRIS, Dave. The art of game worlds. Illustrated by Leo Hartas. Lewes: Ilex, 2004, 192 s. ISBN 1904705340. info
- FORSTER, Winnie. The encyclopedia of game.machines : consoles, handhelds & home computers 1972-2005. Edited by David McCarthy, Translated by Rafael Dyll. Utting: Gameplan, 2005, 224 s. ISBN 3000153594. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture and class discussion - both aimed at deeper understanding of the problem of computer games in education.
- Assessment methods
- Each student is going to present his/her own proposal of an original methodical work (with a minimal length of 9000 characters) related to computer games and aimed at primary and secondary education teachers’ needs (computer games in foreign language education, art history, civic education, literature etc.).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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