Teaching With Video Games in Mind

http://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/5426529651/ Teaching with Video Games in Mind Mary Beth Hertz The Reform Symposium 2011

We are not talking about……. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification … or actually playing games in the classroom.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/3983751145 We are talking about game play and game design as it relates to planning instruction.

Let’s make learning look like this! http://www.flickr.com/photos/clover_1/3065372014/in/photostream/

Low-risk learning opportunities … ..just try again! http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/4122728566

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/864731205/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9544998@N04/4051730408 Manageable goals that lead towards mastery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184462890 Just the right amount of challenge…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7525367@N04/2162040262 Fun! Emotionally engaging!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouverfilmschool/3613743657 It’s how good games are designed!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26480501@N06/2961565820 http://www.flickr.com/photos/60057912@N00/4185191883 Thinking of game play and game design when planning your lessons and units will help you build meaningful, well-paced and engaging learning experiences.

More resources
The blog post that sparked this presentation
http://philly-teacher.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-can-we-learn-from-gaming.html
Quest to Learn School, NYC
http://q2l.org
Gaming in Education Diigo list:
http://www.diigo.com/list/mbteach/Gaming-in-Education
Gameful (game design site)
http://gameful.org
Making Learning Whole by David Perkins
A special thanks to Chad Sansing (@chadsansing) and Sylvia Martinez(@smartinez) who helped me wrap my head around this topic.

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