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Collateral Learning
This document discusses how online games can facilitate the development of 21st century skills. It notes that the modern workplace values skills like problem-solving, collaboration, and adaptability over pure knowledge. While schools focus on standardized tests, games encourage collaboration, managing diversity, and thriving in unpredictable environments. The document also suggests how games could provide lifelong learning opportunities through story-based curricula, simulation, and online communities of practice.
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Collateral Learning
- 2. Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills Lisa Galarneau Ph.D. Candidate The University of Waikato New Zealand lisa@socialstudygames.com Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 3. The face of work is changing… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 4. The modern workplace photo: Allan Hsu Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 5. Knowledge workers… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 6. The tools ofmodern work… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 7. 21st century skills? Soft skills, emotional intelligence, enterprise skills Problem-solving, decision- making, team-work, communication, collaboration, managing self, information literacy, relating to others, entrepreneurship, taking initiative Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 8. What about schools? Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
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- 12. We most often learn without meaning to… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 13. Social play is particularly good for learning… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 14. Collateral learning… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 15. Even single player games are often played cooperatively Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 16. Because games have always been primarily social… Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 17. Virtual Worlds… Collateral Learning:Online Games for 21st Century Skills
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- 19. How can onlinegames facilitate 21st century skill development? Christopher Dede’s* critical skills: Thriving on chaos Comfort with diversity Managing information * http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~dedech/ Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 20. Thriving on chaos… CollateralLearning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 21. Comfort with diversity… CollateralLearning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 22. Managing information… Collateral Learning:Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 23. The U.S. Military (Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming: A Research Framework for Military Training and Education, 2005) - http://www.strategicleader.us Who believes? /ExperientalLearningPapers/ GameReport_Bonk_final.pdf Researchers: Katie Livingston Vale, Constance Steinkuehler, Toru Fujimoto, Nick Yee, Aaron Delwiche, James Paul Gee, Kurt Squire, Henry Jenkins Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 24. Principles (Bonk andDennen) Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 25. Periodic Storypath/story-based curricula (content) Team-building/cooperation/ communication (skills) Research (skills) How might it Simulation/synthetic worlds (systems thinking) look? Ongoing Communities of practice united around play (content/skills/ sociocultural literacy) Lifelong learning (content/skills) Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 26. Join an existing group of at least 4 members. After gaining their trust and loyalty, persuade the group to hunt at a different spot. Start a group, and then get the group to Leadership a designated location deep within a level-appropriate dungeon to get a drop Training (as from a specific mob. imagined by Nick The leader of a guild that is about to fracture over a long-standing issue has Yee*) just stepped down from the position. Keep this leaderless guild together while keeping attrition to a minimum. Create a guild of at least 50 active members with a weekly attrition of not more than 5%. * http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000515.php?page=3 Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 27. Revolution Collateral Learning: OnlineGames for 21st Century Skills
- 28. Quest Atlantis Collateral Learning:Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 29. Industry Player Collateral Learning:Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 30. To ponder… Will online games/virtual worlds become mainstream activities? Will we all inhabit a variety of worlds? Will we sign up for lifelong learning? Like sports, will online games be not only fun but good for us, too? Might our educational system develop an appreciation for informal, collateral learning? Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills
- 31. Galarneau, Lisa andMelanie Zibit. (In Press) Online Games for 21st Century Skills. In Games and simulations in online learning: Research and development Much, much frameworks. more in David Gibson, Clark Aldrich, Marc Prensky forthcoming (Eds.) book chapter! Draft available at: http://lisa.socialstudygames.com/ Galarneau_Zibit_OnlineGames.pdf Or e-mail lisa@socialstudygames.com Collateral Learning: Online Games for 21st Century Skills