Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning

ISBN-13: 9781138427884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Keith Devlin

Opis

To complete an album, a producer needs to know what goes into capturing great music and teasing out inspirational performances from artists. As a producer, you are guiding not only the music, but also the business and the technical aspects of an album. What Is Music Production? is a "guide to this guidance."Formed from a blend of solid information extracted from detailed interviews, the book focuses on the process of music production, providing insight into how the producer guides this process and molds the final product.Whether you are a student or just starting your professional career, What is Music Production? explains what you need to know-from working with artists, songs, pre-production, mixing, and mastering to the finance and budgeting-to glean a professional result. Combining the "how to" with online assets and interviews, this book arms you with vital insight into the business of being a music producer.

Spis treści

Preface. State of Play. Street Smarts. The Perfect Medium. Euclid Would Have Taught Math This Way. What Is Doing Mathematics Anyway?. Mathematics Proficiency: A New Focus in Mathematics Education. The Key Features of Gaming. Mathematics Education and Gee's 36 Video Game Learning Principles. Developing Mathematical Proficiency in a Video Game. Building a Successful Math Ed Video Game. Algebra and Beyond. A New Pedagogy. Suggested Further Reading. Bibliography.

O autorze

Dr. Keith Devlin is a senior researcher and the executive director of the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (HSTAR) at Stanford University. He is also a cofounder of the Stanford Media X research network and a regular contributor to NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. His current research focuses on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis.