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From a learning psychology perspective, web-based simulation games and computer-aided simulations harbour great potential for subject-specific and interdisciplinary learning. For example, lower secondary school learners who experienced the web-based simulation game "Discovering Economy" in a co-constructive setting showed a significant improvement in their understanding of economic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cooperative and participatory development of concepts, processes and spaces is becoming increasingly important for libraries. For library teams as well as for administrations it is vital that participatory processes can be initiated in easy ways regarding time and money. The article addresses this question and shows how the use of simulation games can lead to constructive solutions. Furthermore, it presents the "hochdrei – vision game" provided by the German Federal Cultural Foundation – a digital tool to design a simulation game specifically for libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Information technology is becoming an increasingly important part of the lives of today's youth, opening up numerous opportunities for its application in various fields of public practice. The statistics presented in the article on the increasing demand for gaming IT industry products update the search for ways to incorporate gamification components in the educational space in order to optimize the process of professional development of a competitive specialist. The article considers the incorporation of gamification into the educational process of higher education institutions in order to develop stress resistance in individuals as a factor in selecting constructive strategies for overcoming life crises in young people. The concept of gamification is investigated using scientific research analysis. The benefits of gamification in the educational and psychocorrectional processes are established. The use of simulator games with augmented and virtual reality elements in the process of developing constructive coping strategies of individual behavior in uncertain situations and overcoming life crises is supported. The article describes the experience of interdisciplinary research at Bogdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University's STEAM-laboratory, Laboratory of Psychophysiological Research, and Laboratory of Health Psychology. The paper describes in detail the step-by-step empirical study on the incorporation of gamification components as well as augmented and virtual reality technologies into a comprehensive training program aimed at developing resilience, emotional stability, and as a predictor of constructive strategies for overcoming life crises in young people. The implementation of the experience is described in the stages of ascertaining and shaping the study. According to the findings, implementing a psycho-correctional program with gamification elements aided in increasing the individual's emotional stability and stress resistance. Representatives of the experimental group, who received active training using gamification elements and AR/VR technologies, demonstrated significant differences in the choice of constructive strategies for overcoming life crises when compared to the control group, which did not receive training.

Media criticism is one of the key skills we need to acquire for living in the 21st century and we cannot start early enough enabling our young people to acquire that competence. With its methods and approach, the project Die FakeHunter provides the basis for a critical attitude towards multimedia information.Embedded in a simulation game, the students are introduced to five testing tools they can use to identify fake news. The project is extremely flexible in terms of extent and duration. It can be carried out on a single day in the library or over several weeks. Students work on a password-protected news portal with exclusive access for each class. Due to the success and international demand for the FakeHunters from grade 8, a version for fourth and fifth graders has also been developed, which approaches the topic in a more playful way.The project was financed with public funds and all working aids and materials are provided under creative commons licence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article provides an encyclopedic overview of epidemics in the movies since the 1950s. After a phase in which epidemics were depicted as being caused by a dramatic antagonist (often by invaders from outer space), real-life epidemics (such as AIDS, Ebola, SARS, etc.) caused the movies to turn to social consequences of epidemics. Many of the films can be categorized as eco thrillers: They examine the relations between humans and their environment. Most of them show the breakdown of society, medical-political measures such as quarantine, ghettoization or even the annihilation of collectives. Furthermore, the films address the human ability for bonding and solidarity, but also the ethical implications of responsibility that authorities and the military, in particular, bear toward all others. Scientists and doctors are often represented as heroic figures because they are able to combat the general threat. The epidemic film belongs to a set of ethical simulation games in which normality, the safety of everyday life and the security of the individual in social institutions are at stake. Many of the films suggest an allegorical approach to what is at hand – as an individual and social encounter with the nearness of death and with the inevitability of an end before God. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable behaviour is an important key objective of the 21st century. In Germany, it is usually defined as an overarching educational task that must be integrated into the individual disciplines. For nutrition education, the didactic-methodical implementation is illustrated exemplarily using a simulation game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first issue of the year 2024 of the Library Service, historical legal systems will be presented that assist jurists in searching for precedents and judgments. Ulrich Ch. Blortz reports on the project of digitizing the library of Freiherr von der Goltz. Katinka Lotz and Hassan Soilihi Mzé present simulation games as instruments for participatory library development. [Extracted from the article]

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The following study is meant to be an extension of and completion to a former research paper entitled “The Role of Foreign Language Teachers in Developing Students’ Intercultural Communication Skills” concluding that students of the University of Oradea, Romania, generally lack intercultural sensitivity and it falls to a great extent to foreign language teachers to change this state of affairs. When the former study came up with proposals for methods of enhancing students’ cultural awareness (see simulation games on cultural differences like Barnga, BaFá BaFá, Randömia Balloon Factory and others), the present study focuses on an international comparison, though limited to only three academic institutions in three countries, regarding Eastern and Central European students’ intercultural sensitivity. The initial idea was to see to what extent students of the University of Oradea, Romania, studying Economics, Medicine and Law dispose of intercultural skills. For this reason a Likert-type scale questionnaire was applied to more than 200 students of the above mentioned faculties. The survey was extended in the second round in Oradea, Romania, also to the Faculty of Environmental Protection and that of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, respectively to an international level asking students of the University of Debrecen, Hungary and the University of Maribor, Slovenia, the same questions. Although we are aware of the limitations of present study, – only three institutions included in the research, having in Debrecen and Maribor less respondents than in Oradea and only from some fields of study, Slovenian students not getting a Slovenian version of the questionnaire, which may have influenced their level of understanding issues, responses not always being consistent – its results have still an informative value. They confirm the author’s initial hypothesis that in spite of the extended international relations and travel opportunities Romanian students are not really aware of cultural diversity and its overwhelming impact upon people’s behaviour, reactions and way of thinking. As to our surprise there are no better results with the other two nations either, specific measures are to be taken in this respect including not only valuable contribution of foreign language teachers – as proposed in the former study – but also curriculum change by incorporating some form of intercultural training, too

By now it is well-known that the role of modern education is to equip students with several types of competences necessary for their future personal and professional life. One of these competences, namely communication skills, has a component whose development is, according to the author’s opinion, mainly in charge of foreign language teachers. It is their role to create the shift from the ethnocentric level of students’ attitude towards cultural issues to the ethnorelativistic stage that is to make their students aware of and accept cultural differences and to help them acquire skills necessary for intercultural encounters. The two main topics present study is focusing on are: to what extent it is necessary to intervene in this respect and which are the ways teachers can develop intercultural sensitivity and competence.The results of a questionnaire applied to more than 200 students of the University of Oradea, Romania – studying Economics, Medicine and Law – confirmed the author’s hypothesis that in spite of the extended international relations and travel opportunities Romanian students are not really aware of cultural diversity and its overwhelming impact upon people’s behaviour, reactions and way of thinking. To change this situation, teachers, especially foreign language teachers may resort to techniques and methods like simulation games on cultural differences (Barnga, Ecotonos, BaFá BaFá, Randömia Balloon Factory etc.) that intercultural communication trainers use successfully in their seminars to make participants aware of cultural diversity and help them manage real life situations involving international encounters and/or appeal to the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies and the internet, through youtube and different socialization platforms.

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The article presents a report from a December 12-13, 2015 conference on digital games and history. Topics of presentations delivered include digital games as historical sources, the use of digital games to simulate historical systems, processes, and events, and digital games as a constituent of collective memory.

Beside Social-Media Gaming is the big challenge for libraries. This article is about the question why libraris should restart their work concerning the topic of gaming and why the Zukunftswerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e. V. started the „German-American Gaming-League“. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]