Games Based-Learning 101 for iCamp

Games-based Learning 101 Barry Joseph ( [email_address] )

CONNIE YOWELL - MACARTHUR ... TO LEARNING FROM EDUCATION ...

... TO PARTICIPATORY LEARNING FROM INFORMATION CONSUMPTION ... CONNIE YOWELL - MACARTHUR

... TO NETWORKS FROM INSTITUTIONS ... CONNIE YOWELL - MACARTHUR

Use of Digital Media K-12
A majority of teachers are using digital media, with applications including instruction, lesson planning, communications and professional development.
PBS: DIGITALLY INCLINED

PBS: DIGITALLY INCLINED Games are #1 Teachers most value digital media for games for students.

YOUTH: BY THE NUMBERS

James Paul Gee Games-based Learning 21st Century Assessment

Henry Jenkins New Media Literacies Participatory Learning

The Participation Gap — the unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow. The Transparency Problem — The challenges young people face in learning to see clearly the ways that media shape perceptions of the world. The Ethics Challenge — The breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization that might prepare young people for their increasingly public roles as media makers and community participants. 3 CHALLENGES

New Media Literacies: social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape

MIMI ITO HANGING OUT, MESSING AROUND, AND GEEKING OUT

MIMI ITO friendship-driven vs. interest-driven

Howard Gardner Digital Ethics

Identity The ways people handle and perceive self-expression and identity exploration online. Privacy How, where and with whom we share personal information online. Credibility How we establish trustworthiness of both people and information online, and establish our own personal credibility. Authorship and Ownership The ways we perceive intellectual property and practices such as downloading/remixing content. Participation The meaning of responsible conduct and citizenship in online communities

Games-based Learning Drill & Skill

Games-based Learning Critical Gameplay

Games-based Learning Serious Games

Games-based Learning Game Design

Game Changer, Joan Ganz Cooney Center “ Digital games offer a promising and untapped opportunity to leverage children’s enthusiasm and to help transform learning in America.” “ On an average day, children as young as eight spend as many hours engaged in media activity as they spend in school; three-quarters of American children play computer and video games.” “ Despite their reputation as promoters of violence and mayhem, digital games have in fact been shown to help children gain content and vital foundational and 21st-century skills.”

Content
(from rich vocabulary to science to history)
Skills
(from literacy to math to complex problem-solving)
Creation of artifacts
(from videos to software code)
Systems thinking
(how changing one element affects relationships as a whole)
Game Changer, Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Jane McGonigal

Games-based Learning 101 Barry Joseph ( [email_address] )

Games Based-Learning 101 for iCamp

by Global Kids on Aug 18, 2011

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