Game-Based Learning: Developing Academic Skills & Avoiding Plagiarism

This report discusses the importance of academic skills for students and proposes a game called "Monster Crush" to help students avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct. The game involves a character needing rescue, and the player progresses by rephrasing paragraphs with decreasing allowed plagiarism levels. The report outlines the game's rules, levels, and strategies for ethical academic conduct, reliable data usage, and effective understanding of academic concepts. It also emphasizes the importance of academic integrity, including honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility, and reflects on the critical thinking, ethical conduct, and communication skills used in developing the game. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and study resources for students.

Further Academic skills
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Table of content
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Game designing for students that develop strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Creation and Explanation of the game........................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Further academic skills are considered very crucial for the for the students that promote
efficient learning. The academic skills are important in order to help students gain the confidence
in order to participate in efficient learning. The skills included in academic skills are critical
thinking as well as note taking. The skills are considered as highly transferable and these are also
crucial in order to attain success in the career. The types of academic skills are organised into 5
categories Academic discourse, Academic Text strategies, Academic Strategies, Composition
and comprehension (Bastges-Lienshöft and et.al., 2021).
TASK 1
Game designing for students that develop strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct.
It is very common that students have been into cheating and also there has been an
evolution in the society. Cheating can be considered as one of the human behaviour wherein
people aim at circumventing the rules and further find out shortcuts in order to achieve the goals.
There have been various instances where students have been reported for cheating and
misconduct. It has been observed that majority of the students have cheated at least once. In the
era of technology, smart education and learning environments have changed a lot and so have the
challenges become more complex and varied (Brandlistuen And et.al., 2021).
Plagiarism and misconduct has been the most complex concern for educators these days.
The educators have been making numerous attempts these days in order to prevent plagiarism
but it has still been a challenge that is to be resolved. There are various games that can help the
students to understand the importance for educational purposes and recognition of the plagiarism
and its impact. The games that are used as educational purpose tend to be interactive and
engaging and hence they are likely to have a positive impact over the successful learning. Also
these help the students in giving closer attention towards them. It has been found that the
students who play games are more likely to perform better in terms of plagiarism recognition
than the ones who do not play the game. It is very important for the students to understand as
there can be situation when they do not understand the concept and hence can commit in their
own writing (Keen, Adams and Simpson, 2021).
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In order to Avoid plagiarism, new game can be introduced by the name of Monster
Crush. In the game, there is a character name Julia that has been kidnapped by the monster. In
order to free the character from the prison of monster, it is essential for the player to pass through
each level of the game. In the game the player is free to choose a name and then get into the
adventure. The game will cover various levels and various environments that need to be gone
through. The rule of the game is that the player will not be having any armours or weapons. But
the only things that will help the player is the shorts word that will help the player to gain
information in order to learn various contents. In order to achieve the short sword, the player will
be required to rephrase a paragraph that will be available on the screen. With every increasing
level, the allowed plagiarism level will decrease. Hence, this will help the students to avoid the
plagiarism and misconduct at the academic level as well. The strategies that will be developed
through this game in order to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct have been discused
below (Muratori and et.al., 2019).
 Ethical- The game will help in developing the strategy regarding being ethical towards
their academic assignment. The game will help the individuals to perform in an ethical
manner and avoid misconduct at the organisation.
 Reliable- The game will further focus upon engaging the students in producing reliable
data so that it can b relied upon in future.
 Effective understanding of academic- The game will help in developing the strategy that
will help the students to develop an effective understanding in context of the academics.
TASK 2
Creation and Explanation of the game
The game that is developed is of the name, Monster Crush. The creation and explanation of the
game has been discussed below (Negreiros and et.al., 2018).
Instructions for playing game
In the game, there is a character name Julia that has been kidnapped by the monster. In order to
free the character from the prison of monster, it is essential for the player to pass through each
level of the game. In the game the player is free to choose a name and then get into the
adventure. The game will cover various levels and various environments that need to be gone
through. The rule of the game is that the player will not be having any armours or weapons. But
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the only things that will help the player is the shorts word that will help the player to gain
information in order to learn various contents. In order to achieve the short sword, the player will
be required to rephrase a paragraph that will be available on the screen. As, the game reaches
each level higher, the allowed percentage of plagiarism will also decrease accordingly. In order
to clear the levels of the game, the player will have 3 lives. Though the revival of lives can be
done after completion of every five levels. For that, the player will have to play a special level.
Also, the complexity level of words and phrases will also increase after every level. In case the
player fails to achieve the required criteria of plagiarism, the game will showcase the most
effective solution too. Also the game will focus upon show casing the grammatical errors as well
(Pakarinen and et.al., 2017).
An explanation of importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is basically referred to the expectations that are fulfilled by the
students, teachers, researchers as well as various members of the community act. These comprise
of various skills like honesty, trust, fairness, respect as well as responsibility. The importance of
academic integrity has various importance. The importance of academic integrity have been
discussed below.
 The academic integrity is fundamental to learning, teaching as well as research.
 The concept of academic integrity helps continuously towards strategies of network as
well as responsibilities.
 The Academic integrity helps the students to recognise, develop and demonstrate the
academic skills.
 The academic skills further helps the students to provide them with freedom to build new
ideas and knowledge and further allows them to support and respect work of other
individuals. The academic skills further facilitate continuous improvement while monitoring the
issues of academic misconduct.
A summary of reflection on the skills used to produce the game
The skills that I have used to produce the game “Monster crush” are critical thinking,
ethical conduct as well as communication skills. The critical thinking has helped me in analysing
various aspects of the games. Further while development of the game, it has helped in
improvising my grammar skills that has boosted by confidence towards communication. Also, I
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have experience that my rephrasing skills have enhanced that ave reduced the academic
misconduct as well (ten Braak and et.al., 2019).
Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above report that Academic skills are very crucial for an
individual at every stage. The academic skills are considered as highly transferable and these are
also crucial in order to attain success in the career. In order to enhance academic skills, the
report has been focussing upon a game to avoid plagiarism and misconduct at academic levels.
The report has further highlighted importance of academic integrity along with a summary of
reflection of the skills that are used to produce the game.
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REFERENCES
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