Revised version of TEDxYouth@Singapore talk: Changing educators one video game at a time

changing educators one
video game at a time

how it began
http://bit.ly/ashley-ted-talk-3

Apple store's #1 app for 275 daysa
Daily users: 30 millionb
Minutes of usage a day: 300 millionb

what app is this?

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furious fowl

Source: http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2011/02/17/angry-birds-inspired-products/

angry birds everywhere!

everywhere except the classroom

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games in the classroom

why incorporate games in education?


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why game-based learning?

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91% of kids in USA (17 and under) play video gamesc

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Singapore youth game more obsessively than USd

Source: http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2011-k-12-edition

game-based learning in 2-3 years

http://latd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Latitude-FutureofGaming.pdf

75% of participants want to see games in education

Photo courtesy of Carolyn Lim

teachers and game-based learning

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the experience is a treasure hunt

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mission: uncover principles of gbl

http://voicethread.com/share/609094/

learning by playing games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q239RcU0zqE

uncovering clues behind qr codes


learning by observing & recording


group reflection in blogs, edmodo


closing the gaps

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=184138261645250&set=a.157635350962208.33818.153236281402115&type=1&ref=nf

conventional thinking

civics & moral education?

social studies?

http://www.angrybirdsgoldeneggswalkthrough.com/angry-birds-walk-throughs/angry-birds-poached-eggs-walkthrough/

social & thinking skills

multitasking & systemic thinking

global awareness & value systems

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what it's all about

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the best way to predict the future is to invent it -- alan kay

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what is: negative view of games

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what could be: addiction to learning?

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