The document discusses stimulating creative thinking through educational games and storytelling across transmedia platforms. It explores how creativity is important for innovation and career success. Transmedia uses multiple media like films, games and apps to tell interconnected stories. Storytelling engages students and helps them learn and remember concepts. The document proposes researching how to develop an educational transmedia game for ages 7-12 that encourages creative thinking through meaningful stories. It outlines methods like interviews and testing with students and experts.

1. How to stimulate creative thinking
trough the educational games and
story telling on transmedia
platforms.

2. Why creativity is important
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywIhJ2goi
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• Sir Ken Robinson-is an English author, speaker
and international advisor on education.

3. Creativity in education:
Why it matters
The value of creativity in education and impact on career success.

4. Creative thinking/ creativity
• When people talk about creativitythen usually it is
thought of as a context of art, but creativityis needed
in every aspect of our lives, everyday.
• Every business needs creative thinkers in the form of
scientists,engineers,medical researchers,technology
innovators,business entrepreneurs,artists,
performers, writers and illustrators,designers,
inventors,educatorsand parents.
• Those people with the ability to "think outside of the
box" will lead the future and make special things
happen.

5. Transmedia
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEpq0k8
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• Monsters To Clowns” is a multiplatform
transmedia project that transforms children
nightmares into sweet bedtime stories,
created in cooperation with Baltic Film and
Media School.

6. Transmedia
• The word transmedia means “across media, it uses
multiple media platforms and formats to tell a story on
a current digital technologies.
• Each media platformwhether it’s a film, animation,
comic, textbook,book, video games, mobile app,
appisodes,web series, social tagging, augmented
reality or a connectedobjects function as a standalone
story experience which are all completeand satisfying
on their own and together.
• Differenttransmeida platforms are like a giant puzzle,
each “piece” also contributesto a larger narrative.

7. Storytelling
• Everybody likes a good story especially young
kids. When the story is constructedright then it is
not only entertainingbut it is capable of holding
student attention while they learn important
concepts, attitudes and skills.
• Story tellingcould be a great for helping students
with their vivid metal images and creativity. A
good story can make the information more
meaningfuland memorable.
• It could be a very effective way to teach new
material/knowledge.

8. Transmedia+ storytelling
• Transmedia storytelling use each platform to
add something new to the overall narrative,
by offering background stories, changing the
perspective on an event or character through
different viewpoints, or continuing a story
arch that was left off in another medium.
• It could become twenty-first century learning
tool.

9. The problem at the moment.
• The creativity isn’t encouraged much at the moment, school
curriculum teaches more facts.
• Kids have knowledge how to use different technology such as
computers and second screen devices but schools haven’t adopted
these technologies. (These devices could help and encourage
students to be more creative).
• When schools don’t encourage creativity and focus on teaching just
facts and look creativity as something what isn’t a “real subject” or
as ” a big change to fail in life” could lead to that the kids wont be
confident enough to express their ideas as adults.
• Companies aren’tjust looking for a degree and the knowledge of
the facts but also creativity and innovation and ability to think out
side of the box.

10. Research
• The fast growth of the technology has changed the way kids learn and interact
with each other. The learning from the textbooks is shifting to the web and to
the hand held devices.
• This will make educators rethink and change the “old” ways of teaching into
something more engaging and memorable.
• Educators have to come up with new methods of teaching and adapt it to the
needs of the students.
• Using second screen devices have given a new challenges to the innovative
designers to connect the physical world and digital world with connected
objects (toys, game cards, activity/text books) also the trend of social tagging
and QR codes has become popular way to share the information and learn
new things.

11. Research
• Researches have found that when the content is scattered
across the different media platforms then it will help
students to construct the knowledge and get complex
messages through more meaningful, challenging and
technology-enhanced experiences.
• If the learning methods are constructed effectively,then
the educational program and the technology become one,
the core is the interaction between technology and story,
creating a deep, rich and memorable learning experience.
• Trough transmedia storytelling kids could learn about
creativity,curiosity, exploring, decision-making and
responsibility (trough the open ended games).

12. Research
• The cognitivetheory of multimedialearning was
popularised by the work of Richard E. Mayer and
other cognitive researchers who argue that
multimediasupports the way human brain learns.
• Multimedialearning is the new and innovative
way to learn, Richard E. Mayer points out, there
are many unresolved issues in multipleplatform
learning and research, which means that the
field continues to be wide open and should
provide a challengingand stimulatingarea of
research for many years to come.

13. Research
• According to Richard E. Mayer, one of the main
principle of multimediainstructionis to encourage the
learner to build a logical mental representationfrom
the presentedmaterial.
• The learner’s job is to make sense of the presented
material as an active participant,ultimately
constructingnew knowledge.
• The researches show that more simple and basic visual
design is actually more effectivethan a design with a
lot of detail. Most importantaspect is to focus on the
learning contentand less on the visual design issues.

14. Research-Transmedia learning
• Transmedia learning applies storytelling
techniques across multipleplatforms to create
immersiveeducationalexperiences that enable
entry and exit points for learning and teaching.
• A transmedia pedagogy allows learners and
content to flow fluidly across media platforms.
Students can enter their learning in a way that
meets their needs and educators can draw upon
the strengths of and maximizethe power of
individual platforms. - Laura Fleming

15. Research- Transmedia learning
• The digital (transmedia) technologies are
making knowledge available to everyone and
turning everyone into a creator as well as a
consumer.
• The technology also allows us to spread
knowledge across the globe, people can share
their stories and ideas and learn from others.
• Learning dosen’t only happen in a class room
any more.

16. Research- what needs to be done.
• Problem- big number of teachers are not used
to or comfortable using new technologies.
• Have to support, encourage and train the
teachers- how to use transmedia technologies
so it would make sense to them.
• Educators have to come up with new ways of
teaching on the transmedia platforms-new
innovative curriculum what doesn’t only exist
on the print.

17. Target group
• For my research I have chosen the targetgroup of kids 7-12.
• Usually children in Estonia start their elementary school at age of 7
• Most of 7 year old kids who start school are able to read and use
the multiple technologies such as TV, web, second screen devices
(tablets, smart phones) and textbooks.
• Why I chose this targetgroup is because kids usually have very good
imagination and sometimes schools can put more effort into
learning facts rather than creativity.
• When creativity is blocked by schools from the early age then later
on in life it will be more harder for kids to express their creativity
and be confident about their ideas. (That is why I believe that
creativity should encouraged from the early age

18. My aim
• Come up with a conclusionhow to connect meaningful
storytellingexperience across transmedia platforms
what will encourage and teach creativity.
• Do it trough the transmedia storytelling/learning.
• Come up with educationalgame on transmedia
platforms what will encourage creativity(
Multiplatformexperience - web, 2nd screen,connected
toys, social tagging, etc).
• Create a positive and interestingenvironment for
learning so kids would benefitfrom the learning
experience and would stay focused.
• Violence free games

19. Research question
• This research will focus on the educational games on
transmedia platforms as a learning tool.
• How transmeida learning could encourage creativity.
• I will explore the new and innovative ways to teach trough
the digital and physical world and how two worlds could be
connected.
• The goal of this research is how to encourage creative
thinking trough the storytelling on transmedia platforms.
• More detailed research questions will arise during the
study.

20. Method
• To gather informationI will constructinterviewsand
testswith kids and with the professionalswho work
with the kids (psychologist,teachers) and professional
people who work in transmeida industry.
• Read and follow research articles.
• Find out based on the research outcomes how to
constructan effectiveeducational game what will fit
into the elementary school curriculumwhat will teach
creativethinking skill.
• This research will be done by analyzing, interviewing
and experimenting(testing).

21. What I‘m doing
• Reading articles
• Sleepwalkers serious games workshop
• Avastusrada
• Creative classroom

22. Sleepwalkers serious games seminar
Sleepwalkers student film festival is organising a workshop
about serious games to the film students. The aim of the
workshop is to introduce the gaming world to the people
who don’t know about it but are curios how it all works.
We have participants from different companies who will talk
about the principles of the gaming world, how to create a
game, what is needed to create a came.
I will hopefully take part of it and will do a presentation, topic
will depend on what will be covered by the speakers. I
would like to talk about the transmeida learning.
26.11.2014from 10 am till 4pm everyone is welcome to join!

23. Avastusrada
• It is a web project mainly meant for students. The aim of
the project is to encourage kids to go out side and explore
different tracks for example the walking path in the forest,
botanical gardens, zoo etc and at the same time learn new
things depending where they are. It will work on the mobile
or tablet device as long there is internet. Participants have
to answer the questions about the track ( could cover
history, biology, geography) they will get the points for the
tasks.The data will be stored in the web, game will record
the track and answers. What could be analyzed after the
game.
• Im going to participate in that project by helping to come
up with the educational context for the game. The aim is
that kids would learn new knowledge and will stay focused.

24. Creative classroom
• Creative classroom is a project what will help
the teachers to adopt the digital and
innovative ways to teach in schools. The
project has partners from Finland, Slovenia
and Croatia who will help to train Estonian
teachers to use the digital technologies in
schools.
• Hopefully I can take part of this project.
• Not decided on what I’m going to do exactly.