Game Based Learning - Sunday Times Education Show

Playful Learning
What can we learn from games?
Ollie Bray
@olliebray
25th June 2011

1.
why
games?

Learning
Credit: http://bit.ly/cqGXk8

Learning
good
pedagogy

Learning
interesting /
engaging
good
pedagogy

Learning through play…
Time

Playful learning…

Playful learning…
Challenge
Progression
Reward

Playful learning…
Challenge
Progression
Reward
Personalized
Real-time

competitive…

competitive…
…but, non-threatening

Relationships

Cultural relevance

Common Language

Noatak, Alaska - 2010

2.
contextual
hubs

Contextual Hubs
the star trek principle?

Planning

futurelab.org.uk/projects/console-games

3.
Learning
from games

“The majority of them really liked it so I said I would install it on their machines. A few replied I didn’t need to do that, ‘because I’m going to download it myself at home tonight’. High praise indeed”.
Alan Hamilton
Stirling High School

4.
Creating
content

3
Games
Design
18

Using appropriate software, I can work collaboratively to design an interesting and entertaining game which incorporates a form of control technology or interactive multimedia.
TCH 2-09a
Using appropriate software, I can work individually or collaboratively to design and implement a game, animation or other application.
TCH 3-09a
I can create, capture and manipulate sounds, text and images to communicate experiences, ideas and information in creative and engaging ways.
TCH 1-04b / TCH 2-04b
I enhance my learning by applying my ICT skills in different learning contexts across the curriculum.
TCH 3-04a
By learning the basic principles of a programming language or control technology, I can design a solution to a scenario, implement it and evaluate its success.
TCH 4-09a

immersive

Instant feedback

complex tasks

literacy

collaborative

rules and building blocks

change variables - science

youtube.com/consolarium

5.
Teaching
about games

boundaries

boundaries
blurred

Credit: http://bit.ly/bDPhyX
barriers

culture

Children will
misuse the
technology

platform limitations

training

motivation
Gulucan village in West China

“It is only by watering ideas do we find out if it is a weed or a flower”
Siobhan Reddy,
Executive Producer - Little Big Planet.

Ollie Bray
Learning & Teaching Scotland
o.bray@ltscotland.org.uk
@olliebray
www.olliebray.com
@consolarium
ltscotland.org.uk/consolarium
Youtube.com/consolarium

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