This research was conducted to explore the effect of Educational Board Games Training Programme (EBGTP) on the social skill development of the fourth graders. EBGTP is a training programme that is based on educational board games that aim to improve the social skills of the children. The pre-test/post-test model with control group was used for the research since it is a real trial model. A total of 80 children (40 trial subjects, 40 control subjects) were included in the research. A General Information Form and the Social Skill Evaluation Scale 7–12 (SSES 7–12) were used as data collection tool. EBGTP was formulated by the investigator, in a regular and controlled manner an hour a day, two days a week, for a period of 10 weeks, corresponding to a total of 20 hours. During the data analysis, dependent group t-tests were conducted for intra-group comparisons and independent group t-tests were used for inter-group comparisons. In conclusion, EBGTP which was provided to 40 fourth graders in primary school was detected to have a significantly positive effect on the social skill development of children.

The Effect of Educational Board Games Training Programme on the Social Skill Development of the Fourth Graders

Electronic games have an important role in contemporary society, affecting it economically, socially and culturally. With a huge market, a proportional number of games, in all flavors, have been offered for all ages, especially for kids, who are patently fond of them. Observing this fact, researchers and teachers realized that games might develop cognitive abilities that formal study could not. Taking advantage of this situation, this paper proposes and presents the development of an educational game for mobile devices aiming to aid small children in the process of literacy, making it playful and engaging, trying at the same time to entertain and to teach, keeping students motivated and, in best cases, leading them to study on their own. The game is composed by several activities involving the alphabet. The activities vary from games that order the alphabet, connect an image to a certain character letter, complete words and unscramble words. There is also a trophy room, in which the student may check the trophies collected during the activities to follow their development.

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Educating Through Mobile Devices: The ABC Game, a Study Case

Body Area Network (BAN) is a sensor network technology for monitoring and logging vital signs of a person, such as cardiac frequency and blood pressure. The main goal of BAN is to make remote monitoring possible. In this paper a group monitoring approach is presented. The work differs from others because the idea is to monitor a group of patients in a hospital or clinic at the same time while having only one receiver for up to 32 people. There is no need to have a transmitter/receiver pair for each patient, making the system affordable. The solution presented also involves wireless transmission, i.e., the captured signs are transferred from the patient device to a host in a wireless fashion. Practical experiments are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the system.

Alessandro Brawerman

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Educating Through Mobile Devices: The ABC Game, a Study Case

A Group Monitoring Wireless System for Health Care Monitoring.