Professional development workshop about various characteristics of a "gameful" mindset.

1. Introduction
To A
Gameful
Mindset
Randall Fujimoto
GameTrain Learning, Inc.

2. “Gameful Mindset”
• ATTITUDE of a gamer –
optimistic, curious,
motivated, up for challenges
• BELIEF in the power and
potential of games (playing,
designing, thinking)

3. YOUR GOAL:
How can I develop a
Gameful Mindset?

4. Let’s Play
A Game!

5. Play
• More play → creative thinking,
problem-solving, language
development, social-emotional
skills¹
• Less play → anxiety, depression,
suicide, and narcissism²
• ¹ Wenner, M. (2009), The Serious Need For Play, Scientific
American Mind.
• ²Gray, P. (2011), The Decline of Play and the Rise of
Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents, American Journal
of Play, 3(4).

6. Growth Mindset
• Carol Dweck, Stanford U.
• Fixed vs. Growth Mindset
• http://vimeo.com/11459772

7. Flow

8. Embracing Failure
• In games, you’re failing
about 80% of the time
• Tolerate ambiguity and
uncertainty
• Failure = partial success

9. Continuous Feedback
Assessment in school:
Formative Summative
Assessment Assessment
Assessment in games:
Formative Summative
Assessment Assessment

10. Just In Time Learning
• Traditional pedagogy
• Textbooks, lectures
• Learn → Do
• Gameful pedagogy
• Situated
• Learn ↔ Do

11. Constant Iteration
• Traditional learning:
Learn → Do
• Gameful Learning:
Do → Learn → Do →
Learn → Do → Learn →…

12. Some characteristics
of a Gameful Mindset
•Play
•Growth Mindset
•Flow
•Embracing Failure
•Continuous Feedback
•Just In Time Learning
•Constant Iteration

13. Keep developing your
Gameful Mindset!
Randall Fujimoto
GameTrain Learning, Inc.
randall@gametrainlearning.org
www.gametrainlearning.org
Twitter: @randyfuj