1. Giraffe Game
Designing an Educational Game for Kenyan Children
Aslihan Oguz, Ketan Devadiga, Saara-Maria Kauppi, Jarkko Kurronen
& Eva Kagiri, Kiarii Ngua
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2. What does learning
mean to you?
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3. Project Overview
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4. The Objectives
• Making learning fun
• Encouraging applied learning
• Raising consciousness of real-life issues
• Engage families and communities
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5. Kenya - Educational System
Educational Challences in Kenya
• Learning by memorizing
• Competition for applying for universities causes selfishness
• Only 4 teachers / school
• 5% of children are not enrolled in school
• Lack of personalization
• Real world, “ethno-mathematics” problems easier for kids
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6. Kenya - Educational System
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7. The Stakeholders
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8. Benchmarking
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9. Existing Solutions - Digital
Improving Literacy in Rural India
-Project 2009
• English lesson cell phone games
modeled after traditional village
games
Word-picture matching game (vocabulary)
Rearrange the words to form sentence (grammar)
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10. Existing Solutions - Digital
Playpower
• Educational games for $10 TV-
computer platform affordable for
children in developing countries
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11. Existing Solutions - Systems
Mobile School
• Belgian NGO that provides
mobile schools in order to
reach and educate street
children all over the world
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12. Existing Solutions - Systems
Activity Based Learning
(ABL)
• Unicef funded project in
Chennai, India
• Self-learning according to
aptitude and skills
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13. Existing Solutions - Traditional
Educational Card- & Board Games
• Plenty of existing ones
• Fun, social interaction
• Inexpensive to manufacture
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14. Approach
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15. Initial Ideas
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16. Timeline & Methods
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17. What did you find most
interesting in your
childhood games?
• Where? Classroom, outside, at home..?
• Individual or group games?
• Tools?
• With or without teachers?
• With or without parents?
...
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18. Thank you!
Psst..
Visit Our Blog:
giraffegames.wordpress.com
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