What can play do for you? Alex Moseley & Nicola Whitton (keynote address)

What can play do for you?

orWho would win the fight between

Red Rocker and Blue Bomber?

Nicola Whitton Alex Moseley

Collection

Creativity

CollaborationPuzzle-solving

Competition

Narrative

Collection

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#bluebomb #redrock

Creativity

Can you catch the angry bird?Find something interesting or unusual that all four of you have in common, and link them together.

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Collaboration

What’s in the box?

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Puzzle-solving

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 2014Quoted in Moseley (2013).

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.

Competition

Competition• Conundrum, collection, creation

Four champions volunteer to compete…

#bluebomb #redrock

You have 5 minutes to complete more challenges than the other teamReady, steady, go!

Narrative

Pervasive Learning Activities

Use of pervasive games to:•Quickly set authentic contexts•Increase motivation & engagement•Provide a safe space for failingShaffer, 2006Brookes & Moseley, 2012

MethodsSkills

Processes

Tools

Problems

Phone the South Sudesian embassy and shout your team name.

Start looking with @junemckellar92

#bluebomb #redrock

Thanks!Nicola Whitton

@nicwhitton

playthinklearn.net/

Manchester Metropolitan University

Alex Moseley

@AlexM11

moerg.wordpress.com/

University of Leicester

ALT GLSIG: http://gamesandlearningsig.ning.com/