Presentation to the Serious Play summit in Brisbane on the 5th of November, 2014

1. Opportunities games
provide for creativity,
production, and innovation
Dr Jason Zagami
Griffith University

2. Game worlds, game play and game
making as contexts for creativity,
production, and innovation
Skills, knowledge and understandings
called upon when students engage
with games or create games

3. Secondary Worlds as a
framework for analysis
Case study data
Field notes & observations
Student artefacts
Videos
Teachers blogs
Survey
Student interviews

4. Creativity
learning contexts, identity development, rankings, modding, co-creation, game making
Rapid Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Simulation

5. Rapid Problem Solving

6. Risk Taking

7. Simulation

8. Production
fan fiction, collaborative writing (fiction/non fiction), cosplay/
avatars, machinima, performative representations, game making

9. Innovation
students / teachers / curriculum / professional development
SAMR model of innovation, Gamer Taxonomies, GPACK decision tool

10. Game Building as a context (Redefinition)
Game Play as a context (Modification)
Game Building as a process (Augmentation)
Game Play as a process (Substitution)
SAMR model

11. Gamer Taxonomies
Students Teachers
Recreation Education
Playnomics, 2012

12. TPACK model
Mishra & Koehler, 2006

13. GPACK model

14. Opportunities games
provide for creativity,
production, and innovation
Dr Jason Zagami
Griffith University