Shall We Play a Game? Gaming the System, When the System Is Your Learning Management System

1. Gaming the System… Nikki Massaro Kauffman @nikkimk #TIE12 “Game Genie for Super NES.” by Evan-‐Amos h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie#/media/File:Game-‐Genie-‐SNES.jpg

2. “And.. Snap! The job’s a game!”

3. “When will we realize that VIDEO GAMES Figured this stuﬀ out a long Jme ago?” Screenshot from the Mouse Trap: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(video_game)

4. “School… is a game; it's just not a terribly well-designed game. There are levels… A, B, C. There are statuses. I mean, what is valedictorian, but a status?” —Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world

5. Screenshot from Trivia Crack: h:p://www.triviacrack.com/.

6. Image, “Atari E.T. Dig: Alamogordo, New Mexico” by taylorhatmaker: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-‐Terrestrial_(video_game)#/media/ File:Atari_E.T._Dig-‐_Alamogordo,_New_Mexico_(14036097792).jpg

7. Image, "Monopoly" by William Warby on Flickr: h:ps://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wwarby/11513503393

8. “When people feel they have no control over the outcome of a game, that leads to aggression… If you press someone’s competencies, they’ll become more aggressive.” —Richard Ryan, University of Rochester Screenshot from Mortal Kombat:

9. “As a player’s skill level increased, the player was less likely to act out verbally against other teammates, including female-voiced players.” ArJcle by Denny Connolly for Gamerant: h:ps://gamerant.com/study-‐bad-‐gamers-‐rude-‐to-‐women-‐opponents-‐teammates-‐125/

10. Representation Image, "Playing 'Risk'" by Tambako The Jaguar on Flickr: h:ps://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tambako/4598642399

11. “But if you can model things for people, if you can give things to people that they can manipulate and play with and where the feedback comes, then they can learn a lesson, they can see, they can move on, they can understand.” —Tom Cha)ield, “7 Ways Games Reward the Brain”

12. Frames from Neglix’s “Stranger Things”

13. îWe split up the party and those trolls took us out one by one." óDustin Henderson, Netflixís ìStranger Thingsî Frames from Neglix’s “Stranger Things”

14. Screenshot from The Blood Typing Game: h:p://www.nobelprize.org/educaJonal/medicine/bloodtypinggame/gamev2/index.html

15. Screenshot from Stop Disasters: h:p://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html

16. Screenshot from The ReDistricJng Game: h:p://redistricJnggame.org/

17. Discovery

18. Image "Pokemon Go Pocket Monster" by Stux: h:ps://pixabay.com/en/pokemon-‐pokemon-‐go-‐pocket-‐monster-‐1543353/

19. STORYTELLING Screenshot, Final Fantasy VII: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII

20. “We think in story. It’s hardwired in our brain. It’s how we make strategic sense of the otherwise overwhelming world around us.” —Lisa Cron, Wired for Story Screenshot, Chrono Chross: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

21. Screenshot from the CDC's “Solve the Outbreak”: h:p://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applicaJons/sto/web-‐app.html.

22. Screenshot from Third World Farmer: h:p://3rdworldfarmer.com/

23. Screenshot from the mobile game "Valiant Hearts: The Great War: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiant_Hearts:_The_Great_War

24. Gaming the LMS

25. — Reiner Knizia, board game designer MASTERY LEARNING: “When playing a game, the goal is to WIN, but it is the GOAL that is important, not the winning.”

26. “Games are brilliant at this. Every time you do something, you get credit; you get a credit for trying. You don't punish failure. You reward every little bit of effort—a little bit of gold, a little bit of credit. You've done 20 questions— tick. It all feeds in as minute reinforcement.” —Tom Chagield: 7 ways games reward the brain ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

27. Screenshot of duolingo: h:p://duolingo.com

28. Dunbar’s Number “…And you get this number of 150. This looked implausibly small… but it turned out that this was the size of a typical community in hunter-gatherer societies. And the average village size in the Domesday Book is 150…” —Robin Dunbar, anthropologist

29. h:ps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/mar/14/my-‐bright-‐idea-‐robin-‐dunbar

30. “Life is just as much about the CO-OP MODE as it is about compeJJon.”

31. ìGamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabricÖ And the reason is, it takes a lot of trust to play a game with someone. We trust that they will spend their time with us, that they will play by the same rules, value the same goal, stay with the game until it's over. î ó Jane McGonigal

32. Throwing students into group work to teach them about collaboration is like throwing beginners into the deep end to teach them about swimming.

33. Screenshot, Clash of Clans 8 by Themeplus on Flickr: h:ps://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/85217387@N04/8638065861

34. Screenshot, Clash of Clans 8 by Themeplus on Flickr: h:ps://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/85217387@N04/8638065861

35. ìI was thinking Will could've cast Protection last night, but he didn'tÖ He put himself in danger to help the party.î óDustin Henderson, Netflixís ìStranger Thingsî Frames from Neglix’s “Stranger Things”

36. Image, "Final Fantasy (NES) Nintendo Power Strategy Guide” by Bryan Ochalla on Flickr: h:ps://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/bochalla/4369890334 Don’t you wish you had a strategy guide for working with people?

37. Peer evaluations should be part of an ongoing and immediate feedback loop.

38. This slide (and others) made possible via the teamwork of… John Butler Matt Farley Natalie Harrison Lisa Komidar Dave Sandor Veronica Terrill Sonya Woods

39. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Communicating Effectively ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Meeting Deadlines ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Mentoring Others

40. We are preparing all learners: future champions, future lifeguards, future coaches, and people who can at least stay afloat.

41. Education is not about the filtering of students. It’s about the scaffolding of them.

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