The document discusses using games in the classroom to promote learning. It outlines several benefits of games including cultivating a growth mindset in students by allowing them to learn from failure and practice skills. Games provide goals, feedback and a way to track progress. They can also leverage intrinsic motivation by promoting autonomy, belonging and creativity. The document then discusses digital game creation tools and has attendees try out games and design their own games to see how they could be used for learning or assessment.

1. 8/27/2016
Dr. Joey Lee
Elliot Hu-Au

2. “Light the way” to mastery
- Providing goals, clear feedback, visible progress
Cultivating a winner’s mindset
- Learn through failure, persistence, optimism to win
Leveraging intrinsic motivation
- Autonomy, Belonging, Creativity, Curiosity, Exploration
Social Power (e.g. peer recognition)
- Reward and Recognize effort and process
- Encourage successful practices and attitudes

3. In the classroom, these are excellent reasons for using games
Safe places to practice and fail
Provide situated learning
Customized or adapt to a player’s
skill level and appropriate scaffolding

4. In the classroom, these are excellent reasons for using games
Can provide drill exercises and repeated practice
Provide immediate feedback
Allow players to view new perspectives
Can motivate desired behaviors

5. On website
©Institute of Play
©Quest 2 Learn Schools
©Minecraft

6. Grow-a-game: A game to
develop your inner “designer”
1. Each team (3-4 people) gets a blue
“values” card. You will have 5 mins to
come up with as many games that
reinforce that value as you can.
The team with the most answers for
their blue card wins.

7. Grow-a-game: A game to
develop your inner “designer”
2. Each team gets a blue “values” and
pink “games” card. You will have 10
mins to develop a game idea that
modifies the pink “games” card to
express the value on the blue card.
Time end: We’ll share out game
ideas. The team with the most votes
for best pitch wins.

8. Digital game creation
tools

10. 1. Choose a game/VR/AR as a tool for learning or
assessment and play it!
2. Go through a tutorial in an html5 game engine
(like Construct2 or Stencyl) to become familiar
with it.
3. Game design and creation: Begin designing or
creating your own game (board/strategy/digital)
that you can use with your students.

12. As you play…
Choose a board or digital game to play. Think about the MDA
framework for your particular game. Choose and stick with one game
for the entire time.
M – Mechanics - What do you do in the game?
D – Dynamics - What happens in the game?
A – Aesthetics - What makes the game fun?
Would this be a useful game to play in your classroom?
As a learning tool? Or an assessment piece?