What can play do for you? Alex Moseley & Nicola Whitton (keynote address)
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This document discusses the benefits of play and outlines various play activities that can foster collection, creativity, collaboration, puzzle-solving, competition, and narrative. It suggests play can provide authentic contexts, increase motivation and engagement, and allow for failing safely. The final section provides contact information for the authors.
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- 1. What can play do for you? or Who would win the fight between Red Rocker and Blue Bomber? Nicola Whitton Alex Moseley
- 4. Collection
- 6. 978-1-853-26080-3 + 978-0-143-10502-2 + 978-0-753-41240-4 = ???-?-???-?????-? #bluebomb #redrock
- 7. Creativity
- 12. Can you catch the angry bird? Find something interesting or unusual that all four of you have in common, and link them together. #bluebomb #redrock
- 13. Collaboration
- 14. What’s in the box? #bluebomb #redrock
- 15. Puzzle-solving
- 16. Puzzle-solving “This puzzle is worth doing for the high you get when you crack it; me and my friend got slightly too excited and did a double high five” HS1000 Student, GHC Forum 2014 Quoted in Moseley (2013).
- 18. 3. Puzzle Solving Solve the following puzzle as a team, and show us the answer by standing up in the pattern of the letter Y or N.
- 20. Competition
- 21. Competition • Conundrum, collection, creation
- 22. Four champions volunteer to compete… #bluebomb #redrock You have 5 minutes to complete more challenges than the other team Ready, steady, go!
- 23. Narrative
- 24. Pervasive Learning Activities Use of pervasive games to: • Quickly set authentic contexts • Increase motivation & engagement • Provide a safe space for failing Shaffer, 2006 Brookes & Moseley, 2012 Methods Skills Processes Tools Problems
- 25. Phone the South Sudesian embassy and shout your team name. Start looking with @junemckellar92 #bluebomb #redrock
- 28. Thanks! Nicola Whitton @nicwhitton playthinklearn.net/ Manchester Metropolitan University Alex Moseley @AlexM11 moerg.wordpress.com/ University of Leicester ALT GLSIG: http://gamesandlearningsig.ning.com/
Editor's Notes
- Suits, Bernard (1978). The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia.
- ARGOSI: http://argosi.playthinklearn.net/
- Curate-a-fact: https://moerg.wordpress.com/curate-a-fact/
- The Great History Conundrum: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/elibrary/internal/tlc11_moseley_conundrum_20110403/
- Shaffer, William (2006). “Epistemic frames for Epistemic games” in Computers & Education : Virtual learning? Selected contributions from the CAL 05 symposium. Vol 46, No. 3, April 2006. pp223-234. Available: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1651376 Brookes, Simon & Moseley, Alex (2012) “Authentic Contextual Games for Learning” in N. Whitton & A. Moseley (Eds) Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching. Routledge, Oxford. pp87-90.