What travels faster than a Bugatti and carries over 1,000 trillion passengers from a single drivers seat? The three pound mass between your ears is home to billions of neurons whose signals travel over 270 miles per hour to send messages, otherwise known as human thought. Making up only 2% of the human body the brain is the source of what makes us, us. Who we are, what we do, how we move, why we think and react to the world around us. Cognitive science and the neurological underpinnings that make the science of learning concrete provide evidence for the way we perceive and engage with the world around us. In this talk Lindsay Portnoy uses cognitive science as a lens to understand the mental processes foundational for learning from the zone of proximal development to self-determination theory and share how science informs the ways in which we develop immersive games to engage our youngest citizens, whose brainpower makes the Bugatti Veryon's top speed of 254 miles per hour seem like a walk in the park!
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Lindsay Portnoy, Killer Snails, 2018 Intentional Play Summit Speaker - Bugatti and the Brain: The Cognitive Science Underlying Game Design
1. Bugatti + The Brain: The striking similarity
between play and gray (matter)
Lindsay Portnoy, Ph.D.
Killer Snails
@killersnails1
@lportnoy
www.killersnails.com
2. The Need for Speed
254 mph Synapses >260 mphspeed
2 passengers 1,000 trillion messagesimpact
3. Neuron = Nexus of the Universe?
A single neuron connects to 10,000 others
8. The Science of Learning & The Making of Games
How do we represent
different voices?
How do we represent
different
experiences?
How do we create more
meaningful play?
15. Context Matters: The Science of Learning + Games
Zone of Proximal Development
(Vygotksy, 1976)
Ninja as “More Knowledgeable Other” in
Fortnite Battle Royale
17. Different Experiences = Different Outcomes
“I hated history until the history channel came out.” (Source: Unknown)
18. How do we create more meaningful play that reflects
experience & voice
Killer Snails Mission: Science out of the lab and into the hands of players/learners worldwide
20. Team Killer Snails!
Co-Founders: Dr. Mandë Holford, Dr. Lindsay Portnoy, Jessica Ochoa Hendrix, MBA
Design & Development Team : Noelle Posadas, Chris
Pollati, Carlos DaLomba, Starlyn Urena, Isaac Atif
Teacher Ambassadors:
Heidi Bernasconi,
Amanda Solarsh
Assumptions about what or who we see impact our perception and ultimately our actions
Fun facts about perception: stroop test in two languages
Green color = yellow in mandarin
Purple color = yellow in hebrew
Orange color = blue in latin
Yellow color = purple in portuguese
Blue color = green in swedish
Red color = orange in italian