SYLLABUS:
GAMES=BRAIN POWER
Do you spend a lot of time playing games on your computer, WII, X BOX, or even board games? Do you realize
that not only are they "fun" to play, they are also strengthening and developing your BRAIN!
This course will focus on how GAMES help learning achievement. Through fiction and nonfiction you will dive
into the world of "Game Playing". You will also explore various games, analyze their "target" strategies, review
their processes and procedures and then relate that information to how the BRAIN develops. You will learn why
games can be beneficial to learning processes and how to use "playing games" to increase your BRAIN POWER!!
You will also be creating your own games. "Learning CAN be FUN!!!! "
Required Book List:
Enders Game-Orson Scott Card
King's Gambit-A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game-Paul Hoffman
Don't Bother Me Now, I'm Learning-Marc Prinsky
Excerpts from other Books provided by me
Each week you will have a reading assignment, at least (1) activity, a writing assignment,
and an online discussion to complete.
(All assignments are due the following Monday, unless otherwise specified.)
Week 1:
Introductions
Vocabulary
Read “Ender’s Game”-Orson Scott Card
Week 2:
Brain Exploration
Reading Excerpts-Given to you by me at the Face to Face meeting
Week 3:
Computers, Video Games and Other Devices
Reading Excerpts-Given to you by me at the Face to Face meeting
Week 4 & 5: Game Exploration
Data Collection for Research Paper
King’s Gambit: A Father, A Son and the World’s Most Dangerous Game-Paul
Hoffman
Week 6 & 7: Game Creation
Read “Don’t Bother Me Now, I’m Learning”-Marc Prinsky
Week 8 & 9: Game/Brain Correlation
Research Paper
Reading Excerpts-Given to you by me at the Face to Face meeting