In this peered reviewed article, Blake and Goodman strategies to teach nursing students’ computer games that are interesting and will have a positive outcome. In a classroom, setting different computer games are used depending on the amount of students’ and group sizes. The games reduce anxiety, assist the student in retaining the information, increase class participation and assist in the ability to use the computers. This article also explains the various games played, and how to play the games.
While assessing the weakness of the games, introduction to the games will be determined to the classroom by the time allotted to each class. Depending on the size of the class, will all the students have a reasonable chance to have a turn at the
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The article also was informative to the reasons why the games should be played. The application of the listed games in this article can be and has been used in the classroom settings. As written, the evaluation of the games proven the benefits outweighed the deficits of the games. The various content of information presented in the article was, CVA, Cranial Nerve Assessment, Growth and Development, Fluid and Electrolytes, and Nutrition, The games listed were Tic Tac Toe, Wheel of Fortune, Concentration, and Jeopardy. The expectations of the games from both educator and student are to aid in learning and retaining information. If the students remain interested and the students give positive feedback on the games, being played the ultimate goal of learning will be …show more content…
This would include using the mobile devices for evidence-base practice and place in into effect. This strategic educational game has assisted the nursing students to understand nursing research and decrease their level of fear of research. The experiments was conducted with cookies and nursing students.
The limitations presented in the study were, the small sample size, lack of randomizing partakers in the studies. The actual researchers that executed the study were not familiar with the research. However, the article did express the positive feedback and the necessity of the great American cookie experiment to nursing education. The great American cookie experiment can be used not only with the taste testing of cookies; it was also used with estimation of percentage volume of liquids covering a surface.
This experiment was shown to be a positive learning tool that is used in nursing classrooms today. The research that was performed with different levels of nursing students and expectations of nursing master students, including this into their teaching plan was