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What Games Are Good At
The document discusses what games are good and bad at. Games are bad at being cheap, tricking students into learning, allowing limitless exploration, adhering to time limits, understanding mistakes, and having long shelf lives. However, games are good at giving the brain what it wants, illustrating complex systems, keeping people in a state of flow, showing new perspectives, being authentic, raising questions, creating shared experiences, allowing independent exploration, providing practice for dangerous situations, creating teachable moments, and giving students ownership.
What Games Are Good At
- 1. What Games AreGood At The 7-11 Talk Jesse Schell Games for Change 2012
- 2. Some Thoughts OnEducation (1692) Johnathan Locke “I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children…”
- 3. What is agame?
- 4. A game is somethingyou play.
- 5. But what isplay?
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- 7. Play is manipulation that indulges curiosity.
- 8. But what makesa game a game?
- 9. But what makesa game a game? Games have goals.
- 10. But what makesa game a game? Games have goals. Every game is a problem to be solved.
- 11. A game isa problem solving activity
- 12. A game isa problem solving activity approached playfully.
- 13. Our Dictionary • play(pla), v. Manipulation that indulges curiosity. • game (gam), n. A problem solving activity approached playfully.
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- 15. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap
- 16. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning
- 18. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning 3) Limitless Exploration
- 19. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning 3) Limitless Exploration 4) Adhering to Time Limits
- 20. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning 3) Limitless Exploration 4) Adhering to Time Limits 5) Understanding Mistakes
- 21. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning 3) Limitless Exploration 4) Adhering to Time Limits 5) Understanding Mistakes 6) Long Shelf Lives
- 22. Games Are BadAt… 1) Being Cheap 2) Tricking Students Into Learning 3) Limitless Exploration 4) Adhering to Time Limits 5) Understanding Mistakes 6) Long Shelf Lives 7) Staying Interesting Forever
- 23. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants a) Visible Progress b) Abstract -> Concrete c) Full Engagement d) Fantasy Motivations
- 25. Betty’s Brain –Vanderbilt University “These kids know these characters aren’t alive, but they get engaged with the narrative, and play pretend, and it brings out a lot of good behaviors.”
- 27. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems
- 28. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow
- 29. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV
- 31. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic
- 32. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions
- 33. Games Are GoodAt… 1) Giving the Brain What it Wants 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions 7) Creating Shared Experiences
- 34. Games Are GoodAt… 2) Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions 7) Creating Shared Experiences 8) Allowing Independent Exploration
- 35. Games Are GoodAt… 3) Keeping You in Flow 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions 7) Creating Shared Experience 8) Allowing Independent Exploration 9) Practice for Dangerous Situations
- 36. Games Are GoodAt… 4) Showing New POV 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions 7) Creating Shared Experiences 8) Allowing Independent Exploration 9) Practice for Dangerous Situations 10) Creation of Teachable Moments
- 37. Games Are GoodAt… 5) Being Authentic 6) Raising Questions 7) Creating Shared Experiences 8) Allowing Independent Exploration 9) Practice for Dangerous Situations 10) Creation of Teachable Moments 11) Giving Students Ownership
- 38. Thanks! Slides: slideshare.net/jesseschell Twitter: @jesseschell Email: jesse@schellgames.com
- 39. 1) Being Cheap 1. Giving the Brain What it 2) Tricking Students Into Wants Learning 2. Illustrating Complex Systems 3) Limitless Exploration 3. Keeping You in Flow 4) Adhering to Time Limits 4. Showing New POV 5) Understanding Mistakes 5. Being Authentic 6) Long Shelf Lives 6. Raising Questions 7) Staying Interesting Forever 7. Creating Shared Experiences 8. Allowing Independent Exploration 9. Practice for Dangerous Situations 10. Creation of Teachable Moments 11. Giving Students Ownership