A lecture on the current state of computer games in schools by Oliver Quinlan. Full presentation with audio at http://www.oliverquinlan.com/blog/2012/06/28/learning-from-games/

1. #eict350
Learning from games (cc) Steve Berry

2. Mr Toledano Gamers

3. (cc) Jordanhill School D&T Dept
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1992) Flow: The psychology of happiness. Rider & Co.

4. Engagement

5. Laevers, F., Heylen, L. (eds.) (2003) Involement of Children and Teacher Style. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

6. Quinlan, O. (2011) 'Articulating learning', Oliver Quinlan: Learning, Teaching, Technology, 9th February 2011..
Available at: http://www.oliverquinlan.com/blog/2011/02/09/articulating-learning/ (Accessed 4th March 2012).

7. Educational Games

8. Educational Games
Games based learning

9. A real purpose

10. Wii Golf Subtraction
(cc) Andre
Barrett, T. (2009) 'Wii Golf Subtraction', EDTE.CH: Inspire, Engage, Connect, Create, 14th October 2009. http://edte.ch/
blog/2009/10/14/nintendo-wii-golf-subtraction (Accessed 4th March 2012).

11. Inspiration

12. (cc) Philip Ritz

13. Youtube (2006), Myst ‘Exile’ in the classroom. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xFMmK5Ujs (Accessed 4th March 2012)

14. A contextual hub

15. (cc) Matt Gibson

16. Amazon.co.uk

17. (cc) Jason Brackins
Endless Ocean

18. Tom Barrett
http://edte.ch/blog/
category/
gamesbasedlearning/
(cc) Ewan McIntosh
Dawn Hallybone
http://hallyd.edublogs.org/
category/
games-based-learning/

19. Scottish Gaming &
Consularium
lwf (2008) Dereck Robertson- LTS Game Based Learning
2010. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RULkrxpaync#t=5m05s (Accessed 4th March 2012)
Learning & Teaching Scotland (no date) Consularium
blog. Available at: http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/
(Accessed 4th March 2012)

20. Games ‘centered’ learning

21. (cc) theunwiseman
Minecraft

22. Just Playing?
Janet Moyles & Early Years
(cc) Dennis Barnes
Moyles, J. (1989) Just Playing?: Role and Status of Play in Early Childhood Education. Open University Press.

23. Neuroscience

24. Quinlan, O. (2011) 'Can Google rewire the Brain? Dr Paul Howard-Jones [lwf]', Oliver Quinlan: Liveblogs, 25th January
2012. Available at: http://www.oliverquinlan.com/liveblogs/?p=445 (Accessed 4th March 2012).
Howard-Jones, P. (2011) The Teacher’s Handbook of TWIG: Brains, minds and teaching with immersive gaming.
Available at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-teachers-handbook-of-twig/11609984?
productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_63888649_ (Accessed 4th March 2012)

25. Gamification

26. (cc) Lars Plougman

27. Kohn, A. (2000) Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans Praise and Other Bribes. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin

28. lwf (2011) Dereck Robertson, LTS Learning without frontiers, London. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch42rBIsjb0s (Accessed
4th March 2012)

29. McLaughlin, K. (2011) 'Gamification for learning in the classroom', Steps in Teaching and Learning, 20th November
2011. Available at: http://www.ictsteps.com/2011/11/gamification-for-learning-in-the-classroom/ (Accessed 4th March
2012).

30. But...

31. McIntosh, E. (2011) 'TEDxLondon: The Problem Finders [Video]', Ewan McIntosh's ed.blogs.com, 29th November 2011.
Available at: http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2011/11/tedxlondon-the-problem-finders-video.html (Accessed 4th March
2012).

32. Livingstone, I., Hope, H. (2011) Next Gen., Available at: http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/NextGenv32.pdf (Accessed 4th March 2012).

33. (cc) quisnovus
“Games and interactive software
can help pupils acquire
complicated skills and rigorous
knowledge in an engaging and
enjoyable way.”
The Guardian (2011), Digital literacy campaign: Michael Gove’s speech in full. Available at: http://
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/11/digital-literacy-michael-gove-speech (Accessed 4th March 2011)

34. Games creation

35. lwf (2011) Mitch Resnick: Learning from Scratch. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDPssJedOJ4
(Accessed 4th March 2012)

36. MIT Scratch

37. Microsoft Kodu

38. (cc) Tilaman Zitsmann

39. Further ‘reading’
http://www.delicious.com/
oliver_quinlan/
gamesbasedlearning