Remixing play using Lego serious play for engagement and to excite communication between students and lecturers

1. Gamification in Science
Play | Your | Future
Jacey-Lynn Minoi, PhD

2. Play is unique because it produces benefits
than span multiple functional domains
including: emotional, mental and social.
It involves a voluntary activity – imaginary

4. Creativity is intelligence having fun
-Einstein-

5. We do not stop playing because we grow old
We grow old because we stop playing

7. … a great idea stems from something that
already exists…

8. Disruptions and Opportunities

11. Create, Think, Learn

13. Thinking, learning and playing with
Lego

14. What is Lego Serious Play?
• A productive, brain
friendly, yet fun way to
think with your hands
and solve big
challenges as a group.
• A method to solve
complex problems and
to decide on strategic
issues.

15. Lego gives you a chance!
• Engaging
• Playfully
• Constructively
• Appreciatively
• Innovatively

16. Metaphors
• Metaphors can be
serve as powerful
tools leading us to
think about our
realities in a new or
different ways.

17. You can remember metaphors easily

18. The core process of Lego Serious Play

19. Thinking with your hands using Lego

20. Warm up activity
• Build a duck.
Timer for 1 minute

21. Activity 2
• Build, based on 2 adjectives, that best describe
your best friend or one of your favourite family
member
Timer for 3 minutes

22. Individuals tell their story
• Each of you, share the model’s meaning and story
with the rest of the team

23. Activity 3
• What is the biggest challenge in your studies?
Timer for 3 minutes

24. Individuals tell their story
• Each of you, share the model’s meaning and story
with the rest of the team
• You may also take a picture and tweet at
@jlminoi
#CreativeCulture #gamificationusingLego

25. Super Hero vs. Super Villain

26. Let’s start the game!
• There will be two groups – Super Hero and Super
Villain

27. Super Hero and Super Villain
• In your group, each of you is to build you
character
Timer for 5 minutes

28. Individuals tell their story
• Each of you, share the model’s meaning and story
with the rest of the team

29. Super Hero and Super Villain
• In your group, work together and merge your
character to build a super super powerful
hero/villain
• Discuss a story, the goals
Timer for 10 minutes

30. Super Hero vs. Super Villain

31. Share your stories!
• Tweet your landscapes or your models, say a few
words on the model(s) and how you feel
@jlminoi
#CreativeCulture #gamificationusingLego

32. How does Lego works?
• Much of our brain’s activity is dedicated to the
manipulation of our hands
• When we model with our hands and tell stories there is
more neuronal activity and better suffusion of blood to
critical areas of the brain
• 70-80% of our brain’s nerve endings are connected to our
hands
• Psychological Flow: Individuals gain most from a learning
process when they are committed to and enjoy the process

33. Appreciation
• Build a model to describe this activity and/or how
can we change in the future for similar workshop

34. Gamification in Science
Play | Your | Future
Jacey-Lynn Minoi, PhD
@jlminoi #CreativeCulture

37. • Minute for building “you” / to build a tower with you in
it.
– Why are you here?
• 5 mins to introduce yourself to your group
• What are the problems in science in Msia. Pick one.
• How you do see science move on in the next 10 years?
• Take a picture, short description on what did you build,
what did you learn and hashtag

38. Thank YOU!
#NewtonUngkuOmar #gamechanger
#NewtonCreativeCulture

39. “Games are a particular
manifestation of play, not its
totality.”
“They happen to be a good starting
point for an investigation of play
because the formality of their rules
makes the machinery of play easier
to observe and analyse”
Upton, 2015

40. Inspirations: mystery box, curiosity, problem-
based learning
A hybrid, gamified and
mystery-driven approach for
facilitating problem based
learning in postgraduate
strength and conditioning
“…it was a bit out of nowhere, I think, so I was a little bit confused and…
Didn’t know where to go from there, it was a little bit surprising.
But then, again it’s up to us to get out there, research, and find out more about it,
which is what we’ve got to do in the future.”