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Bugs in the Kitchen<\/strong> The Not So Serious Side of Board Games<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether considering board games from the collection as tools for teaching numerical, social, or any number of skills, this Tuesday’s feature highlights the primary goal of game design – player entertainment and engagement. Thanks to the sponsors of ALA’s International Games Day @ Your Library<\/a>\u00a0which Andersen Library celebrated in November, a number of smart\u00a0board games have been added to the Teaching Tools collection. Bugs in the Kitchen is a clever application of technology using\u00a0K’Nex Hexbug nano for players six and up – and judging from our tester responses here in Andersen Library, “and up” easily includes adults\u00a0with or without child supervision.<\/p>\n Other newly added games include:<\/p>\n The Somewhat More Serious Side of Board Games<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are interested in the more serious side of board games, click here<\/a>\u00a0for a research starting point in databases such as PsycInfo and Education Research Complete where you will find articles such as “Teaching Teamwork Skills through Alignment of Features within a Commercial Board Game,” and “Learning from Number Board Games: You Learn What You Encode” which points out that the “principles that predict when and explain how games produce learning” is a worthy goal of future research (Laski & Siegler, 2014<\/a>).<\/p>\n Bugs in the Kitchen by Peter-Paul Joopen GV1469.B85 B8 2013 Teaching Tools, Curriculum Collection, 2nd Floor The Not So Serious Side of Board Games Whether considering board games from the collection as tools for teaching numerical, social, or any number … Continue reading
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\nLaski, E. V., & Siegler, R. S. (2014). Learning from number board games: You learn what you encode. Developmental Psychology, 50<\/em>(3), 853-864. doi:10.1037\/a0034321<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"