23. Frustration and Flow 5:35-7:25 Flow: the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. ( Mihály Csíkszentmihályi ) It's good for a player when they learn that their failure will never depend on luck, it's all because they strived, learned and finally succeeded. And at the end, all the fun from this type of game comes down to the joy of learning Gamasutra: The Art and Business of Making Games
34. Scientific American A pernicious excitement to learn and play _____ has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for playing this game have been formed in cities and villages. Why should we regret this? It may be asked. We answer, _____ is a mere amusement of very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. _____ has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises—not this sort of mental gladiatorship.
35. Scientific American, July, 1859 A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for playing this game have been formed in cities and villages. Why should we regret this? It may be asked. We answer, chess is a mere amusement of very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises—not this sort of mental gladiatorship.
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45. Other Sites with Game Lists Top 100 Interactive Educational Games http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/mmh/games/top100.htm OCSD Interactive Games http://resources.oswego.org/games/ Mr. Nussbaum http:// www.mrnussbaum.com / Education World: Sites to See http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites082.shtml
46. More Game Examples Food Force Stop Disasters Magic Pen You Are the Historian Team Treks Third World Farmer Minyanland ElectroCity Nanoquest Real Lives Traveler IQ The Forbidden City Discover Babylon Dimension Math Lunar Quest Web Rangers Peacemaker Budget Hero Redistricting Game
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64. Protea's Guide to Market Participation “ The instant resolution nature of the consignment house has an interesting effect on steady-state properties of the market. Let’s suppose for a moment that the system is seeded with a large number of random entries for both bids and postings: (b1 b2 … bN) and (p1 p2 … pN) The subscripts here denote increasing denominations of currency, i.e. both the bids and postings are sorted within their own pools. As long as any bids are higher than any postings, the system will resolve transactions and remove those bids and postings from play. If there are any bids and postings left, which we would expect in many instances, there are by definition two domains in the market afterwards: (b1 b2 … bM) ... (pM+1 pM+2 … pN) That is, the highest remaining bid is lower than the lowest remaining posting. In other words, these two domains – known as the bid pool and the sell pool - are disjoint. They have in a very tangible sense become two separate markets.”
65. Sources Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! by Marc Prensky – Paragon House Publishers (2006) What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee – Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd edition (2007) How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer – Palgrave Macmillan (2008) Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey – Basic Books (2008) Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do by Lawrence Kutner – Simon & Schuster (2008) Brain Rules by John Medina – Pear Press (2008) http:// www.brainrules.net / “ Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked” by Henry Jenkins http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html Federation of American Scientists - Summit on Educational Games (2006) http://www.fas.org/gamesummit/ “ Games, Motivation, and Learning” - White Paper (PDF) http://caspianlearning.co.uk/Whtp_Games_Motivation_Learning.pdf “ You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired! Why multiplayer games may be the best kind of job training” by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas ( Wired Magazine, April, 2006) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html Games in Education video by Mark Wagner and Michael Guerena of the Orange County (CA) Department of Education's Educational Technology group -- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6117726917684965691
66. Web Sites This Presentation – http:// www.slideshare.net/dadams.altec 4Kids – http://4kids.org Arcademic Skill Builders – http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com Matrix Games -- http://matrixgames.altec.org/ Dimension Math (fee-based, demos online) -- http://www.dimensionm.com/ Mr. Nussbaum -- http://www.mrnussbaum.com/mathcode.htm Oswego County School District -- http://resources.oswego.org/games/ National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html Club Penguin – http:// clubpenguin.com Virtual Stock Exchange – http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx Hollywood Stock Exchange – http://hsx.com/ Marc Prensky’s Web site – http:// www.marcprensky.com /writing/ Henry Jenkins’ blog – http:// henryjenkins.org
Editor's Notes
"A guild master must be adept at many skills: attracting, evaluating, and recruiting new members; creating apprenticeship programs; orchestrating group strategy; and adjudicating disputes. Guilds routinely splinter over petty squabbles and other basic failures of management; the master must resolve them without losing valuable members, who can easily quit and join a rival guild." Brown, J.S. & Thomas, D. (2006). "You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!" Wired 14.04. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html Core Subjects and 21 st Century Themes Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies Global Awareness and Civic Literacy Economic and Business Literacy Health Literacy Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration Information Media and Technology Skills Information and Media Literacy - Communication and Technology Literacy Life and Career Skills Flexibility and Adaptability - Initiative, Productivity, and Self-direction Social Skills - Leadership, Accountability and Responsibility
http://www.wordspy.com/words/thumbculture.asp http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,673103,00.html http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/2007/03/the-second-digi.html The " thumb tribe " ( 親指族 ) - who primarily input text through the telephone numerical layout - show serious inexperience with using PCs and with typing on a real keyboard. They are "retrogressing" to a point where they have the pathetic PC skills of their out-of-date elders. Over the last six years, almost all age groups have seen their share of total home PC access usage increase - except for 20 year-olds who have dropped from making up 23.6% to now only 11.9%. This current rate means that they make up an almost identical proportion of the total as 50 year-olds. Kids are saying that they use e-mail to talk to their teachers, or for their jobs. “E-mail is useful for talking to adults.” Most of their interpersonal contact is via IM, or through postings on social networking sites.
18:02-19:00 - Jenkins New media is adopted early by kids. Generation growing up with a technology treat it in a pragmatic manner. Next generation of teachers will have had game experience and it will be part of their culture. 20:44-21:05 - Gee The future is going to belong to people who are tech savvy and comfortable with technology, who don't view tech learning as hard or special but instead as an everyday thing. Active Web 2.0 – students are creators. In his book Joystick Nation , J.C. Herz wrote “TV turned kids of the fifties and sixties into a nation of screen watchers, videogames have created a cadre of screen manipulators”. At the very least, kids expect to be able to comment. Usually they want to construct. Multi-tasking The brain is linear in its application. Multi-tasking is really quickly switching and frequently between tasks. This comes naturally to a digital native, but makes non-natives uncomfortable. Non-linear thinking Hypertext and information on demand allows students to explore. Depth of thought is often exchanged for breadth of experience, leaving detailed information for on-demand searching – why memorize the periodic table when you can look it up whenever you need it? Be aware stat student research may lead them away from their initial topic idea. Ubiquity Technology is everywhere, and kids expect to be able to connect with anyone, anytime. See “periodic table” above Technical Fluency Compare to a person who is speaking a foreign language. Even if you speak it well, a native speaker sounds like he is talking faster. A digital native just “knows” how to interact with technology just as a native of a foreign country knows how to interact in a new situation. A native speaker uses nuances, slang, and assumptions of cultural reference. “Invisible bike” or “Leeeroy Jenkins” Feedback Instant feedback is expected. Students will desire frequent reward opportunities. Very clear goals and requirements are desired. And those goals should be individualized as much as possible (next) Individualization Digital Natives expect that their technology will be customized for them. Gone are the days of the model-T (“any color you want as long as it is black”) or the princess phone. Web sites, stores, music, and even material things are individual and customized. Risk-takers Losing a game or failing a task just means that you need to try again. Learning new technology (which happens all the time) is a matter of just trying something and watching how it responds. Mastery priciples should come into play to give students more opportunities – errors are chances to grow rather than failures to learn. Information sifting Students can manage vast amounts of information. They can quickly categorize data and find the relevant parts. For example, embedded advertising and popup windows.
http://hagar.up.ac.za/cie/med_old/modules/mio880/docs/theory/simulations.html 1) simulations that teach about something, i.e.: a) Physical simulations – tectonic plates b) Process simulations – supply and demand 2) simulations that teach how to do something, i.e.: a) Procedural simulations – use a scientific calculator b) Situational simulations – deal with classroom management problems 5:20–5:35 Lemonade Stand Try out “Food Force”
In “assessment” games, incidental learning of content is minimized. Learning takes place in preparation for the game, but the actual play has few opportunities for incidental learning of the content. Of course students do learn about interpersonal, intrapersonal, problem solving, communication, and life skills (like time management) strategies even in assessment games.
Beginning Video 2:30-3:30 (Jenkins and Gee) Engagement 6:50-7:25 - Jenkins teachers complain that making education "fun" devalues the process of hard work. instead we should talk about "engagement" Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Feedback Individualization Risk-takers Information sifting
Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Feedback Individualization Risk-takers Information sifting
Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Feedback Individualization Risk-takers Information sifting
Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Feedback Individualization Risk-takers Information sifting
Active Multi-tasking Non-linear thinking Ubiquity Technical Fluency Feedback Individualization Risk-takers Information sifting 5:35 -6:00 - Jenkins Kids will go to bed early to avoid difficult homework, but will stay up late to beat a difficult game The worst thing a kid will say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing they'll say about a game is that it is too easy 6:00-6:55 - Clark Aldritch Teachers need to take advantage of frustration
4:00-4:30 - Clark Aldrich It is really hard to use a simulation or computer game in a classroom. It is not the same skill set that we use when lecturing or giving tests or even in a lab. It is one of the great next generation teaching skills is to take something like Civilization and use it in the classroom. 4:30-5:20 - James Gee SWAT team, following the rules need similar games to teach kids about other systems, like doing good science
Why? Assessments, basic skill attainment
On certain kinds of knowledge, like parts of speech, site words (reading recognition) and arithmetic, a student needs to become very fluent (accurate and fast). To build that speed and fluency we need to first build up the response rate to which they perform these skills, disregarding the errors. Once we get a response rate high, we need to focus on the accuracy rate. See an immediate drop in response rate but will build up quickly. Need to be sensible…not use subjects that kids know nothing about, this won’t work. If kids are using fingers to add, this would work for them. Disregard errors until rate is up, then knock out errors. It’s easier to knock out errors than it is to build up speed.
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/korean/ 26 million online in Korea. 54% play online games. Lineage has 150,000 simultaneous users, country the size of Indiana. Corporate sponsorship for gamers
http://www.thinkingworlds.com/ 7:25-7:55 - Gee Simulations, benefits Good for risk taking, exploration, thinking about complex systems. Games have rules, players have to leverage it and use it for your own purposes. modern way of thinking
This is a good example of incidental learning. In many games where a market is significant, players who want to participate meaningfully in the market need to understand real world economic characteristics. Most players do just fine playing the game as if they were selling their treasure at garage sales – they try to sell what they have quickly and not to get cheated while making a small amount of money. However a significant number of players treat the online markets as serious business. Castranova article Kaufman grant re: Junior Achievement (Segue into COH)
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