25. Curiosity
Ask Questions & Engage
Lifelong Learning & How Stuff Works
Problem Solving & Cheating?
Story Telling & Model Making
Curiosity was Framed, Ignorance killed the Cat.
26. World’s Best Playground
With an Electric Fence
Learning needs Challenges
Success needs Failures
Creativity needs Constraints
Extraordinary needs Boundaries
37. Difficulty by Design
They Know Fun, Ask More & Let Them Try
Provide Context
Shape Challenges
Show Connections
Mastery to Literacy
38. Good Learning, Good Games
Explicit Goals
Involved Engagement
Scaffolded Difficulty
Failure, Doubt, Curiosity
Accomplishment, Mastery, Literacy
39. Not about Fun
Can’t Gamify Learning
Motivate through Difficulty
Reward through Mastery
Learning Literacy
Exceed Expectations
40. Hard Fun
Pleasantly Frustrating, Engagingly Compelling
Difficulty & Mastery
Agency & Literacy
Transformational
Playing & Learning & Creating
A Child’s Work is Play