New study results by a research team at the University of Cologne show that future teachers increasingly want to use computer games in the classroom. The study identifies particularly relevant aspects that should be addressed in teacher training programmes in order to support this intention. The study results have been published under the title ’Teaching with digital games: How intentions to adopt digital game-based learning are related to personal characteristics of pre-service teachers’ in the British Journal of Educational Technology.
Computer games play a major role in the lives and media use of children and adolescents people. However, current school teaching rarely takes this medium into account. ...
