The Pedagogy of Play and the Role of Technology in Learning The goal of the videogame “Civilization” is to build a civilization that stands the test of time. You start the game in 4000 B.C. as a settler and, with successful gameplay, can create a civilization that lasts until the Space Age. Throughout the game, you need to manage your civilization’s military, science, technology, commerce and culture. One doesn’t read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” to develop strategy before playing the game. This model of learning is not only effective for videogames but for all digital tools, and I would argue that play — especially in the digital sense — is emerging as a pedagogical keystone for education in the 21st century. Stuart Brown, M.D., explains in his book, “Play,” how a range of scientific disciplines have revealed the importance of lifelong play. The power of play The iPad has been hyped as a device that will revolutionize education. Creating a ‘sandbox’ Play is vital for normal cognitive, social and emotional development. Joichi Ito
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Create Your Own Game – 7 Sites that let you create games online By: Abbas+ July 8, 2008 Create your own games online with few clicks. For those of you who always wondered how do people create those games where Bush is punching Kerry or Bush Dancing? here are 7 online resources which will let you create your own games instantly. All of these sites offer flash based games creation. Few of these sites offer template based game creation and few offer a clean slate for creating games were you can design/create/import objects and create the game from the scratch and publish it. Creating your own games wouldn’t have been so easy it if wasn’t for these sites. Sploder.com Spolder offers an option of creating two games and it offers complete inventory of objects that can be used for creating a game.
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MooT is the etymology, semantics, and grammar game Seven YouTube Channels Not Named Khan Offering Math Lessons Over the weekend I received an email from a reader asking me if I had a list of YouTube channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathematics lessons. I didn't have a list, but I said I would create one. Therefore, here is my short list of YouTube channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathematics lessons. WowMath.org is developed by high school mathematics teacher Bradley Robb. Numberphile is a neat YouTube channel about fun number facts. Bright Storm is an online tutoring service. Ten Marks is another online tutoring service that offers mathematics tutorial videos on their site as well as on their YouTube channel. Math Class With Mr. The Open University is one of my go-to YouTube channel for all things academic. Yay Math!
Adapt Your Gamification Designs with Jesse Schell’s Four Pillars Adapt and Evolve Your Gamification Through Jesse Schell’s Four Pillars of Design Jesse Schell describes in his brilliant book The Art of Game Design the four pillars that is comprised of a game: Technology, Aesthetics, Mechanics, and Story/Narrative. When gamifying a process it is smart not to overlook any of the pillars. After all, we’re now in the experience economy and Gamification might be your killer app when enhancing customer or employee engagement: A major difference with designing a game and gamifying a process is that a game designer tends to start from scratch. A gamification process already has a group of people, a corporate culture, a company brand etc. A great metaphor for this need of thinkering can be seen in the movie Apollo 13: Consider how you might adapt and gamification system to your needs by approaching it through Schell’s four pillars of game design. Game Mechanics: My favorite reference for understanding these systems is the Cynefin Model: Aesthetics: Technology: