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- 3. SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? NO SERIOUSLY…..
- 5. Overview • What is Game Based Learning? • What are Serious Games • What about COTS – Commercial Off the Shelf Games
- 6. Participatory Culture Game Based Learning
- 8. AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS And the WORLDS they live in
- 10. G Factors • Collective Intelligence • Gamification • Smart Tools • Convergence • Distributed Intelligence • Constant Assessment
- 11. The New Literacies • Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving • Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery • Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes • Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
- 12. The New Literacies • Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. • Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities • Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal • Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
- 13. The New Literacies • Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities • Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information • Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms. Source: http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E %7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
- 14. Or as Michigan State puts it… Source: http://seriousgames.msu.edu/
- 15. Game Genres • Mini games: – Small, easy-to-access game built to be simple and addictive, which often focuses on mastering an action and can provide awareness of more complicated issues. • Interactive metrics: – Simulation in which students typically try to impact critical metrics by allocating resources along competing categories and getting feedback of their decisions through graphs and charts.
- 16. Game Genres • Frame games: – Students engage familiar games and puzzles such as Wheel of Fortune®, solitaire, or memory, with important pieces of awareness or task-based content replacing trivia or icons. • Branching story: – Simulation in which students make a series of decisions via a multiple choice interface to progress through and impact an event.
- 17. Game Genres • Practice ware: – Real-time, often 3D sims that encourages participants to repeat actions in high fidelity situations until the skills become natural in the real-world counterpart • Virtual product or virtual lab : – A series of challenges/puzzles to be solved using on-screen representations of real-world objects and software.
- 20. COTS Commercial Off the Shelf
- 21. Console Games • Portal • Skyrim • Assassin's Creed • Others
- 23. MMORPGs • WoW • Minecraft • TERAOnline • EVEOnline • Club Penguin • Poptropica • Others
- 24. MMORPG • Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game • End Content requires cooperative groups known as guilds • World of Warcraft, Guild Wars II, and League of Legends
- 26. Virtual Worlds Immersive Online Environments that allow individuals to interact in each other and environment. Accessible 24 / 7 Metaverse
- 29. Virtual World • Synchronous world • Persistent network of people • Avatar representation • Facilitate by networked computers • Definition by Mark Bell
- 30. November 2 & 3
- 31. Sandbox Genre • Open world • Video game where the player is given considerable amount of freedom • Allows for Content Creation • Minecraft
- 32. Mobile Games • Mobile Apps • Alternate Reality Games • Location Based Games
- 33. Vocabulary • Simulation v. Game • Engagement v. Fun
- 34. How can I use Games?
- 35. Before using Games • Determine what your objectives are. • Determine simulation requirements and reasonable computer capacity. – This will determine if students will encounter simulation in class / on campus or off campus
- 36. Before using Games • Use the simulation yourself – Student’s will expect that you have done this and can solve any of their problems
- 37. Before Games • Develop grading and task rubric – Student’s will want clear goals and objectives • Pre-survey • Actual task • Discussion
- 38. Before using Games • Assign task with realistic timeframe – If simulation is too large, cut it down • Request feedback / post survey – Student’s want to know that you are doing this for a reason – Survey’s allow students to vent and point out issues and areas for improvement
- 39. Using Games 1. Ice breakers – Utilize serious games/ simulations to introduce class to new topics and stimulate discussion 2. Projects – Group or individual work – Use to reinforce class concepts and assess mastery
- 40. Using Games 3. Competitions – Break students into groups and have them compete for prizes / extra credit – Set up a computer lab for real time competition/ tournaments. **** – Show screen on SmartBoard, so teams can share tactics/ learn new methods. *****
- 42. Place • On the SmartBoard before class • On the SmartBoard during class • In computer classroom • Computer Commons • Student’s personal Computers
- 43. Big “G” Games
- 44. G Factors • Collective Intelligence • Gamification • Smart Tools • Convergence • Distributed Intelligence • Constant Assessment
- 46. Games for You to Test
- 48. REST OF THE WEEK • Play one or all of the games – Post Finding in Discussion Forum – Screenshot – Link up and place it in Diigo – Tweet it out
- 49. REST OF THE WEEK • Google Doc – Add a game – In 25 – 50 words tell us about it – Would you use it? – Why? Why not? – Found something better? Share the link!
- 50. Wednesday – 7 pm MST • TWEETCHAT – 60 minutes of twitter discussion – Start with quick intro – Then 4 questions – #gamemooc
- 51. Thursday – 6 pm MST • Broadcast over Games MOOC YouTube • Discussion of Games Based Research and how to use Game Based Learning! – Hannah Geber and Sandy Abrams