Games Based Learning Presentation
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This document discusses game-based learning (GBL) and gamification in education. It defines game mechanics as rules and feedback loops intended to produce enjoyable gameplay. Common game mechanics mentioned include points/XP, levels/leveling up, achievements, and quests. The document also discusses concepts like flow, fiero, and affinity groups in gamified classrooms. Characteristics of a gamified classroom mentioned are starting students at level 0 and allowing them to level up to an A through quest-based learning. Different types of games for GBL are also listed such as tabletop, digital, and mobile games.
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- 2. Game Based Learning or Gamification is the use of game mechanics in non-gaming situations
- 3. What are game mechanics? Constructs of rules and feedback loops intended to produce enjoyable gameplay. They are the building blocks that can be applied to gamify any non-game context. gamification.org
- 4. Game Mechanics Cascading Points or XP Information Theory Levels or Leveling Up Achievements Blissful productivity Community of Collaboration (Affinity Group) Urgent Optimism and Epic Meaning Quests
- 5. Cascading Information Theory Gamification of Education Infographic
- 6. Achievements Part of the game progression Locked until you complete a series of tasks or assignments Usually come with a Badge Shows status in game Usually kept on a leaderboard
- 7. Blissful Productivity (Flow and Fiero) The idea that playing a game makes you happier working hard than relaxing would World of Warcraft average 22 hours a week Flow - fully immersed, energized Fiero - Italian for Proud, Hard fun, the moment of personal triumph
- 8. Community of Collaboration Affinity Group
- 9. Community of Collaboration Affinity Group James Paul Gees book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Literacy and Learning Learners constitute an affinity group, that is, a group that is bonded primarily through shared endeavors, goals, and practices and not shared race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, or culture. Examples, Massively Minecraft, Club Penguin, WoW Wiki
- 12. WoW Wiki
- 14. What are the characteristics of a gamified classroom? Instead of starting with an A and trying to keep it, everyone begins at 0 and levels up to an A Quest based As quests are completed new quests are opened and quests get progressively harder. You may not advance until you have mastered the skill in the quest. 3d GameLab Using the Education Gamification group in Edmodo
- 15. 3D GameLab
- 17. Types of Games Tabletop or Traditional Games (Monopoly, Chess, Settlers of Catan, and Apples to Apples) Digital Games (World of Warcraft, Club Penguin, Minecraft, and Portal, World Without Oil, Free Rice, Darfur is Dying) Mobile Games (Angry Birds, Stack the States, The Math Mage, and Words with Friends
- 21. Sources