Gamification of Learning (High Tech, High Touch course)

1. Gamification &Gamification &
Game-BasedGame-Based
LearningLearning
Krista Leh Rundell
Email: kristalehrundell@gmail.com
Twitter: @klrundell

2. Consider these questions:Consider these questions:
What is your favorite game? Why?
What is “play”?
What does Engaged learning look
like, sound like, feel like?
What are the games your students
play? Why do you think they play
them so often?

3. Other considerations:Other considerations:
Did you mention a sport, board
game, puzzle game, or online game?
Why are our students so engaged in
these games?
Do our students play sports?
Board games? Puzzles?
Online games?

4. POPULAR
ONLINE
GAMES
Which ones do YOU play?

5. Gamification [n]:Gamification [n]:
the use of game
design elements
in non-game
contexts
- The Gamification Infographic

6. Characteristics of a GameCharacteristics of a Game
Defining
Trait
Purpose Importance
Goal
Explains
Outcome
- Provides Sense of Purpose
- Focuses Attention
Rules
Places
Limitations
- Unleashes Creativity
- Fosters Strategic Thinking
Feedback
Discloses
Proximity to Goal
- Promises Achievability
- Encourages Motivation
- Jane McGonigal

7. What is a Game?What is a Game?
Defining
Trait
Purpose Importance
Goal Explains
Outcome
- Provides Sense of Purpose
- Focuses Attention
Rules Places
Limitations
- Unleashes Creativity
- Fosters Strategic Thinking
Feedback Discloses
Proximity to Goal
- Promises Achievability
- Encourages Motivation
Voluntary
Participation
Evens
“Ground”
- Promotes safe, fun
environment with challenges
- Jane McGonigal

8. DEBRIEFING – a key learning component
(Feedback)
Social Interactions
- What helped us succeed?
- What hindered our success?
- What do we need to do differently next time?
Academics
- Where am I in terms of the goal?
- What do I need to do to move toward goal?

9. What is a Game?What is a Game?
- Jane McGonigal

10. History of GamingHistory of Gaming
Go to this website and read about
The History of Gaming.
http://www.ancient.eu.com/article/81/

11. Today’s StatisticsToday’s Statistics
A half billion people on Earth spent an hour
per day gaming
Collectively, our planet now spends 3 billion
hours a week gaming
By age of 21, the typical American will have
spent10,000 hours playing games - as many
hours of games as spent time in MS and HS
– parallel structure
Research indicates pro-social results of
gaming for up to 21 hours per week (MIT)

12. Today’s StatisticsToday’s Statistics
Technology is changing the way we think,
learn, and communicate
“Why do we let people put the
best of themselves into a
virtual world?”
- Jane McGonigal

13. Rapid Change in ErasRapid Change in Eras
Daniel Pink,
A Whole New Mind

14. Rapid Change in ErasRapid Change in Eras
“Technologies, cultures, climates may
change, but our basic human needs and
desires do not. To survive, to care for our
families, and to lead happy, purposeful
lives.”
- Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken

17. What’s Happening In Education?What’s Happening In Education?

18. This is what we want in education…
students SO engaged that they
WANT to come to school.

19. Jane McGonigalJane McGonigal
Please watch the two videos
by Jane McGonigal:
The Game That Can Give
You Ten Extra Years of Life
Skills Students Are
Learning From Games
(Links on the wiki – mod 9)

20. Appeal of Games:
1. Clear Goals & Objectives
2. Specific, Constructive Feedback
3. Failure is Low-Risk
4. Draw on Strength of Others
5. Incremental Learning
6. Cascading Information Theory

21. Cognitive Benefits: Whole Child Benefits:
Processing & Constructing of
Knowledge
Engagement
Connecting, Transferring, Sharing Info Motivation
Better Retention of Information Collaboration
Systems-Thinking Work Ethic & Pride
Attention to Detail Resiliency
Freedom to Experiment; Risk-taking Sociability
Failure as Growth Evolution of Self
Multiple Approaches Relationship Management
Problem-Solving Creativity
Negotiation

22. High Tech vs. Low TechHigh Tech vs. Low Tech
www.education.mit.edu
The Education Arcade
explores games that promote
learning through authentic
and engaging play. TEA's
research and development
projects focus both on the
learning that naturally occurs
in popular commercial games,
and on the design of games
that more vigorously address
the educational needs of
players.

23. Transference to EducationTransference to Education

24. Transference to EducationTransference to Education

25. PLAYPLAY
Can I join you?
Can I save it?
Can I show you how?

26. Dice GamesDice Games
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27. Dice Games – World LanguageDice Games – World Language
#1
1 – 1st
person Singular
2 – 2nd
person Singular
3 – 3rd
person Singular
4 - 1st
person Plural
5 – 2nd
person Plural
6 – 3rd
person Plural
#2
1 – Comer
2 – Playar
3 – Estar
4 – Preguntar
5 – Creer
6 – Cambiar
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29. 3 letter word = 1 point
4 letter word = 2 points
5 letter word = 3 points
6+ letter word = 4 points
ClothespinsClothespins
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31. TrainersWarehouse.com
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32. Card GamesCard Games
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33. Play-dohPlay-doh
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34. Drawing GamesDrawing Games
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35. AnalogiesAnalogies
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Simulations:
analogies for
real-world
events

36. Continuum of OptionsContinuum of Options
Strongly
Disagree
Strongly
Agree
AgreeDisagree
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37. Alphabet/Number GamesAlphabet/Number Games
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38. JengaJenga
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39. Game-Based Learning [n]:Game-Based Learning [n]:
Learning through
the use of games

40. Work/Occupation Related GamesWork/Occupation Related Games
Med. Students: “ER: Code Red”
◦ As Dr, have to treat 35 cases
Doctors & Nurses: “Septris”
◦ Stanford: ID and manage outbreak
Global Issues: “Evoke”
◦ World Bank: solve social problems
Military: Skill training
games

41. Lexica
science
social studies
reading
science world language
literature

42. Using Games in EducationUsing Games in Education
Play a game to learn new content
Participate in simulations to test theories
& variables
Analyze points of view through characters’
actions
Document own learning through reflection
Research new content through creation of
another game
- Klopfer, Osterweil, Groff, & Haas

43. Why are you using a game?Why are you using a game?
Provide domain-specific content?
Provide domain-specific analytic and
problem-solving approaches?
Enhance skill transfer to related tasks
and domains?
Enhance general skills or cognitive
process?
Develop specific social structures?
Improve participant motivation?
- Ruben R. Puentedura

44. Remember…Remember…
Use inconsequential competition
Target essential academic content
Debrief game
Review difficulties
Allow for students to re-process
information and revise notes
- Robert Marzano

45. Initiatives and GamesInitiatives and Games
THE ACTIVITY
THE DEBRIEF
◦ What?
 What specifically did each member do?
◦ So What?
 How did our actions and learning impact us
in the game? (life skills - ex: cooperation)
◦ Now What?
 How will we take these learning into the
“real world” or back into the content?

46. Appeal of Games: In the Classroom:
1. Clear Goals & Objectives - ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
- RUBRICS
2. Specific, Constructive
Feedback
- WHAT IS GOING WELL
- HOW TO IMPROVE
3. Failure is Low-Risk
- FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
4. Draw on Strength of
Others - PAIRS/GROUPS
5. Incremental Learning /
Cascading Information
Theory
- MOVE FORWARD WHEN
PROFICIENCY ACHIEVED

47. ReferencesReferences
 Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Cummins, M. (2012).
The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media
Consortium.
 Klopfer, E., Osterweil, S., Groff, J., & Haas, J. (2009). Using the Technology of Today, in
the Classroom of Today.
http://education.mit.edu/papers/GamesSimsSocNets_EdArcade.pdf
 Klopfer, E., Osterweil, S., Groff, J., & Haas, J. (2009). Moving Learning Games Forward.
http://education.mit.edu/papers/MovingLearningGamesForward_EdArcade.pdf
 Marzano, R. (2010). Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement., Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development, Volume 67 (5), pp. 71-72.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb10/vol67/num05/Using-
Games-to-Enhance-Student-Achievement.aspx
 McGonigal, Jane. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change
the World. New York: Penguin, 2011. Print.
 Puentadura, R. (2009, August 3). Game and Learn: An Introduction to Educational
Gaming. http://hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/000039.html
 Teach Thought http://www.teachthought.com/technology/difference-gamification-
game-based-learning/
 The Gamification of Education infographic. https://www.knewton.com/gamification-
education/