#Age_3_0 2nd panel "Aging Across Generations in Work and Play" #creativeaging #play

1. Research supported by
@margaridaromero
margarida.romero@fse.ulaval.ca
Associate professor of Educational Technology
Faculté des Sciences de l’Éducation
Université Laval
Feat. Scratch
and Vibot
the robot
Intergenerational play and game design:
participatory fun and digital empowerment

2. Scaffolding Digital Game Design Activities
Grouping Older Adults, Younger Adults and Teens
Research supported by Ageing + Communication + Technology www.actproject.ca
@MargaridaROMERO
Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT)
•a research project comprised of researchers,
students, community and institutional partners
from Canada, USA, Spain, Peru, United
Kingdom, Finland, The Netherlands, Romania,
Malaysia…
•together, we are investigating how to address
the transformation of aging experiences in
networked societies
Silver Gaming working group
•Aims: identifying different
types of digital game
activities among elderly
including:
•(1) intergenerational
learning;
•(2) cognitive maintenance;
(3) well-being;
•(4) entertainment, creativity
and serious fun!

3. @margaridaromero
Can technologies support
creative participation across the
lifespan ?

4. @margaridaromero
Can technologies support
creative participation across the
lifespan ?
Passive-participatory model (Romero, Laferrière, & Power, 2016).
PPM applied to learning to code activities:
Romero, M., Davidson, A-L., Cucinelli, G., Ouellet, H., & Arthur, K. (2016). Learning to
code: from procedural puzzle-based games to creative programming. CIDUI.

5. @margaridaromero
Citizens as ICT
consumers
(Interactive ICT usage)
=» Representativity
Citizens as ICT co-
creators
(Participatory Knowledge
Co-Creation)
Intergenerational techno-
creativity
Src:CultOfMac.com
Src:Ladieslearningcode.com
Is not about the technology (nor its intentions) but about its actual
participatory creative use.

6. Techno-Creative
activities
○ Critical thinking
○ Collaboration
○ Creativity
○ Problem solving
○ Computational
thinking
Romero (2016). Design : Dumont
#5c21

7. Romero (2016). Design : Dumont
#5c21
○ Creative
collaboration as a
context-related collaborative
process of shared creation,
where a solution is
collaboratively (co)constructed
by a group of persons and
considered as original, valuable
or useful by a group of reference
(Romero & Barberà, 2015).

8. @margaridaromero
Learners as ICT co-creators
(Participatory Knowledge Co-Creation)
Intergenerational techno-creativity
Src:Ladieslearningcode.com
Intergenerational creative programming engage
participants from different generations and backgrounds together
in the process of designing and developing an original work through
coding.

9. @margaridaromero
Src:Ladieslearningcode.com
Intergenerational creative programming
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/79072590/#editor

10. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops. Strategy 1: Ice-breaking roles.
Senior participants (50+)
Acting as Narrative directors,
sharing a life experience
related to the Social Sciences
curriculum.
Younger learners
acting as Multimedia directors,
creating a digital life narrative
(Open Educational Resource)
Intergenerational learning through play (Davis, Larkin, & Graves, 2002) and digital
creation. Participatory design of digital games (Blat et al., 2012; Vanden Abeele &
Van Rompaey, 2006) with Scracth.
Digital creativity;
Social participation;
Heritage
preservation
Learning by real life
stories; Learning by
creating OER

11. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops. Strategy 1: Ice-breaking roles.

12. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops. Strategy 2: Intergen-Creativity.

13. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops. Strategy 2: Intergen-Creativity.

14. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops. Strategy 3: Storytelling
From storytime to coding time
De l’heure du conte à l’heure du code
#Vibot the robot, an
intergenerational book about
programming and educational
robotics. Available in French and
English (paper and online).

15. @margaridaromero
Orchestrating intergenerational creative programming
workshops (II)
#Vibot studio on #Scratch

16. @margaridaromero
References and ressources
#CoCreaTIC
https://margaridaromero.wordpress.com/
Romero, M., Davidson, A-L., Cucinelli, G., Ouellet, H., & Arthur, K. (2016). Learning to
code: from procedural puzzle-based games to creative programming. CIDUI.
Romero, M., & Ouellet, H. (2016, July). Scaffolding Digital Game Design Activities
Grouping Older Adults, Younger Adults and Teens. In International Conference on
Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (pp. 74-81). Springer International
Publishing.
Romero, M. (2016). De l’apprentissage procédural de la programmation à
l’intégration interdisciplinaire de la programmation créative. Formation et
profession, 24(1), 87-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.18162/fp.2016.a92
Romero, M., Laferriere, T., & Power, T. M. (2016). The Move is On! From the Passive
Multimedia Learner to the Engaged Co-creator. eLearn, 2016(3), 1.
Romero, M., & Loufane. (2016). ViBot, le robot. Québec, QC: Publications du Québec.
Romero, M., & Vallerand, V. (2016). Guide d’activités technocréatives pour les
enfants du 21e siècle (Vol. 1). Québec, QC: Createspace.

17. Research supported by
@margaridaromero
margarida.romero@fse.ulaval.ca
Associate professor of Educational Technology
Faculté des Sciences de l’Éducation
Université Laval
Feat. Scratch
and Vibot
the robot
Intergenerational play and game design:
participatory fun and digital empowerment
Thanks
you!