Game Based Learning - Sunday Times Education Show

Playful LearningWhat can we learn from games?

Ollie Bray@olliebray

25th June 2011

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Why?

Learning through play…

Time

Playful learning…

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competitive…

competitive…

…but, non-threatening

Relationships

Relationships

Cultural relevance

Common Language

Noatak, Alaska - 2010

Noatak, Alaska - 2010

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contextualhubs

the star trek principle?

Contextual Hubs

Planning

futurelab.org.uk/projects/console-games

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Learning from games

“The majority of them really liked it so I said I would install it on their machines. A few replied I didn’t need to do that, ‘because I’m going to download it myself at home tonight’. High praise indeed”.

Alan HamiltonStirling High School

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Using appropriate software, I can work

collaboratively to design an interesting and

entertaining game which incorporates a form of control technology or

interactive multimedia.

TCH 2-09a

immersive

Instant feedback

complex tasks

literacy

collaborative

rules and building blocks

change variables - science

youtube.com/consolarium

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Teachingabout games

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barriers

culture

Children willmisuse the technology

platform limitations

training

Gulucan village in West China

motivation

Gulucan village in West China

motivation

Gulucan village in West China

motivation

“It is only by watering ideas do we find out if it is a weed

or a flower”

Siobhan Reddy,Executive Producer - Little Big Planet.

Ollie BrayLearning & Teaching [email protected]@olliebray

@consolariumltscotland.org.uk/consolariumYoutube.com/consolarium

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