My presentation for a SchoolNet SA webinar.

1. Spice Up Your Classroom With
Games
Arjana Blazic
Schoolnet SA webinar
July 17, 2013

2. … are a form of fun enjoyment and pleasure
… are a form of play intensity and passion
… have rules structure
… have goals motivation
… are interactive doing
… have interaction social groups
… are adaptive flow
… have outcomes and feedback learning
… have win states ego gratification
… have conflict/competition/challenge/opposition life and career skills
… have problem solving creativity
… have representation and story emotion
Mark Prensky: Games …

3. Games in education?
- antisocial behaviour
- youth violence
- addiction
√ motivation and engagement
√ challenge
√ authentic context
√ cross-curricular
√ 21st century skills
√ ownership of activities
√ greater responsibility
√ recognition of achievements
√ rewards
√ learning

4. Have you ever used games in your classroom?

5. Image by Ollie Bray

6. use in the classroom
not very appealing
more appealing to students
large budgets
development teams
state-of –the –art technology
cost money
entertainment, not education
VS

7. Educational use of COTS games
TOOL
contexts for learnіng
well-structured
meaningful
powerful
contextual hub
hook for learning
Teacher
• learning activity designer
• facilitator
Student
• researcher
• active participant in the learning process
gamification
edutainment

8. Guitar Hero Transition Project by Ollie Bray
@olliebray

9. Guitar Hero Transition Project by Ollie Bray
Three stages

10. http://www.kinecteducation.com/

11. www.brainpop.com

14. Consumers to Creators
plan - design – produce – publish - evaluate

15. www.discoveryeducation.com/puzzlemaker

16. www.picturedots.com

17. bit.ly/gamesLEG

19. http://scratch.mit.edu/educators/

20. http://gamestarmechanic.com
bit.ly/gamesSA

21. Thank you!
arjana.blazic@gmail.com
@abfromz

22. References:
Ollie Bray: Playful Learning: Computer Games in Education
Ben Williamson, FutureLab, 2009: Computer games, schools and young people
Richard Sandford, Mary Ulicsak, Keri Facer and Tim Rudd, FutureLab: Teaching
with games
Learning and Teaching Scotland in partnership with Futurelab: The impact of
console games in the classroom: Evidence from schools in Scotland