The Importance of Digital Game Desing Programmes in Education

Volume: 6 Number: 1 March 1, 2017
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The Importance of Digital Game Desing Programmes in Education

Abstract

Today, both children and youth spend most of their time playing digital games. Thus,their programming experience may be improved by combining their knowledge of programming with thier joy with the games. Digital games design programmes are to design 2D or 3D games to be played online or electronically with a laptop,notebook or a tablet using programming diciplines. Designing games helps both children and youth gain intelligence and competence to be used and transferred in any field. Programming is a part of digital game designing. They can design games using programming codes. However,it needs reading and writing games besides programming. Therefore, they improve not only their technical knowledge but also their ability to understand and design the games. Scientifically,both applications help us think appropriately and improve mathematical thinking. For this reason,digital game programming is one of the most important ways to supply the children and youth with 21st century competencies. For this study,totally 177 students studying at both computer teaching department at the faculty of teaching and computer programming department at the vocational school of computer Technologies have been made a survey about digital game teaching programmes. According to the results,students support the idea of games and digital game learning programmes and it is proved that learning via creations helps learning be permanent. Moreover,some recommendations are taken into consideration.

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Ebru Yıldırım This is me

Publication Date

March 1, 2017

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March 1, 2017

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Year 2017 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Yıldırım, E. (2017). Dijital Oyun Tasarım Programlarının Eğitimde Önemi. Mesleki Bilimler Dergisi (MBD), 6(1). https://izlik.org/JA53HL22MR