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Who’s me?
(very) Brief history of who’s we?
Two advices for startup life
What is MinecraftEdu?
IF.. you decide to enter the edutainment
business, you probably want to know:
- current trends
- what you should NOT do
- how we see our field changing in 5-10 years
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3. My IRL avatar
- M.Ed. (2012) + Qualification to teach
in the Finnish comprehensive school
- Started TeacherGaming LLC in
summer 2011
- Avid gamer (Anno-, X3-, Total War-
and Fallout-series... f.ex.)
- TG is the second of three startups I
have been involved (in chronological
order)
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4. Past
Who needs oil?
I ride a bus.
School project with Minecraft
SCGroup Oy 12.6.2010
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6. TeacherGaming LLC Numbers
- ceo + big picture, Santeri - over 1,2k schools
- PR + edu. director, Joel - around 700k users
- Lead dev., Aleksi
+ 2developers, Toni & Daniel
+ 1 part time web guy’
+ Madrid team of two designers and one dev.
hosted by Complutence Uni.
+ sales, our finance lady
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7. How do we work?
We are basically experimenting ideas that come out from our flow
And we give these guys the final word how they really want to use
it - we think they know the best.
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8. These flow-like ideas have made us one of
the wolds leading ‘thinkers’ in education
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10. When your calendar
fills up, you lose the
ability to come out
from the box
Staying at the top of you game depends on the
company’s creative power to control their
time usage and creating the space in time for
new ideas.
Ps. this is counter intuitive for company executives.
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11. ... and one for covering your assets.
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12. Before doing anything
Best place for immaterial rights is your company,
company owns everything, you own the company
Common problem - one guy leaves, who owns the IP?
Solution: shareholder contract
- right of first refusal
- buyout
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15. Q?
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16. The Second Age of (Learning) Games
The first one did last around 30 years without changing a bit.
The second is rather different.
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18. My opinion of growing trends to follow in schools for
the next few years from the game company perspective:
- game usage in general
- maker movement
- personalization and open-ness (including hacking)
- transform of the understanding of the modern citizen
- different platforms for games
*social media (edmodo f.ex.)
*mobile
*MOOCs?
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19. What trends I suggest you don’t:
- gamification
- everybody creating a learning platform
- technology that only speaks to itself
- (depends) public money for everything!!!
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21. How do most people
develop learning ‘games’?
Activity / assignment 1
Curriculum Theme 1 Activity / assignment 2
Theme 2 Activity / assignment 3
Objective 1
Theme 3 Activity / assignment 4
Objective 2
Theme 4
Activity / assignment 5
Objective 3 Theme 5
Objective 4
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22. LET’S MAKE A LEARNING GAME!
Pick what do we want
to learn!
Activity / assignment 1
Curriculum Theme 1 Activity / assignment 2
Theme 2 Activity / assignment 3
Objective 1
Theme 3 Activity / assignment 4
Objective 2
Theme 4
Activity / assignment 5
Objective 3 Theme 5
Objective 4
Text book converted into a game. Voilà!
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24. Games are expected to bring engagement
and fun into the classroom.
So the most important part of it is the
game it self.
Game cannot be a great ‘learning’ game
before it’s a great game first.
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26. In business sense:
this makes the most sense ->
So kind of scaffolding to build for
the teachers to understand it?
‘Your own lesson plan is still the best.’ -anonymous teacher
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27. What to keep in mind when creating
pedagogy around your game?
What are you doing!!
- being in control of the situation
Goal orientation - guiding
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28. Pedagogy support - community
Connections - integrations
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29. In most hard core terms:
- ability to assign (understand)
- ability to monitor
- ability to evaluate
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30. You don’t have to make
everything by yourself.
Leave the door open.
No heavy DMR-policies, ability to
modify / tweak / hack, API...
Or maybe they just wake up.
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31. How TG is handling this?
Students
Teachers
Most important Key teachers
layer
We
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32. The most traditional serious gaming does
make sense...
... but only in certain context(s).
Primary school is not one of them.
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33. ‘When is he going to
mention open source?’
I guess eventually it always
comes down to money...
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34. Q?
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35. One last thing: there’s plenty of room in the market.
Last evening first (Swedish) school told us that they are
buying MinecraftEdu instead of textbooks. That’s big.
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36. Thank you!
Twitter / Skype @Aalvisto
santeri@teachergaming.com
blog: thoughtsaboutminecraftedu.tumblr.com
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