shall we play a game? gaming the system, when the system is your learning management system

Gaming the System…

Nikki Massaro Kauffman

@nikkimk #TIE12

“Game Genie for Super NES.” by Evan-‐Amos h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie#/media/File:Game-‐Genie-‐SNES.jpg

“And.. Snap!

The job’s a game!”

“When will we realize that

VIDEO GAMES Figured this stuff out a long Jme ago?”

Screenshot from the Mouse Trap: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(video_game)

“School… is a game; it's just not a terribly well-designed game. There are levels… A, B, C. There are statuses. I mean, what is valedictorian, but a status?”

—Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world

Screenshot from Trivia Crack: h:p://www.triviacrack.com/.

Image, “Atari E.T. Dig: Alamogordo, New Mexico” by taylorhatmaker: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-‐Terrestrial_(video_game)#/media/File:Atari_E.T._Dig-‐_Alamogordo,_New_Mexico_(14036097792).jpg

Image, "Monopoly" by William Warby on Flickr: h:ps://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/11513503393

“When people feel they have no control over the outcome of a game, that leads to aggression… If you press someone’s competencies, they’ll become more aggressive.”

—Richard Ryan, University of Rochester

Screenshot from Mortal Kombat:

“As a player’s skill level increased, the player was less likely to act out verbally against other teammates, including female-voiced players.”

ArJcle by Denny Connolly for Gamerant: h:ps://gamerant.com/study-‐bad-‐gamers-‐rude-‐to-‐women-‐opponents-‐teammates-‐125/

Representation

Image, "Playing 'Risk'" by Tambako The Jaguar on Flickr: h:ps://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/4598642399

“But if you can model things for

people, if you can give things to

people that they can manipulate

and play with and where the

feedback comes, then they can

learn a lesson, they can see, they

can move on, they can

understand.”

—Tom Cha)ield, “7 Ways Games Reward the Brain”

Frames from Neglix’s “Stranger Things”

îWe split up the party and those trolls took us out one by one."

óDustin Henderson, Netflixís ìStranger Thingsî


Screenshot from The Blood Typing Game: h:p://www.nobelprize.org/educaJonal/medicine/bloodtypinggame/gamev2/index.html

Screenshot from Stop Disasters: h:p://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html

Screenshot from The ReDistricJng Game: h:p://redistricJnggame.org/

Discovery

Image "Pokemon Go Pocket Monster" by Stux: h:ps://pixabay.com/en/pokemon-‐pokemon-‐go-‐pocket-‐monster-‐1543353/

STORYTELLING Screenshot, Final Fantasy VII: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII

“We think in story. It’s hardwired in our brain. It’s how we make strategic sense of the otherwise overwhelming world around us.”

—Lisa Cron, Wired for Story

Screenshot, Chrono Chross: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

Screenshot from the CDC's “Solve the Outbreak”: h:p://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applicaJons/sto/web-‐app.html.

Screenshot from Third World Farmer: h:p://3rdworldfarmer.com/

Screenshot from the mobile game "Valiant Hearts: The Great War: h:ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiant_Hearts:_The_Great_War

Gaming

the LMS

— Reiner Knizia, board game designer

MASTERY LEARNING: “When playing a game, the goal is to WIN, but it is the GOAL that is important, not the winning.”

“Games are brilliant at this. Every time you do something, you get credit; you get a credit for trying. You don't punish failure. You reward every little bit of effort—a little bit of gold, a little bit of credit. You've done 20 questions—tick. It all feeds in as minute reinforcement.”

—Tom Chagield: 7 ways games reward the brain

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

Screenshot of duolingo: h:p://duolingo.com

Dunbar’s Number

“…And you get this number of 150. This looked implausibly small… but it turned out that this was the size of a typical community in hunter-gatherer societies. And the average village size in the Domesday Book is 150…”

—Robin Dunbar, anthropologist

h:ps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/mar/14/my-‐bright-‐idea-‐robin-‐dunbar

“Life is just as much about the

CO-OP MODE as it is about compeJJon.”

ìGamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabricÖ And the reason is, it takes a lot of trust to play a game with someone. We trust that they will spend their time with us, that they will play by the same rules, value the same goal, stay with the game until it's over. î

ó Jane McGonigal

Throwing students into group work to teach them about collaboration is like throwing beginners into the deep end to teach them about swimming.

Screenshot, Clash of Clans 8 by Themeplus on Flickr: h:ps://www.flickr.com/photos/85217387@N04/8638065861

ìI was thinking Will could've cast Protection last night, but he didn'tÖ

He put himself in danger to help the party.î

óDustin Henderson, Netflixís ìStranger Thingsî


Image, "Final Fantasy (NES) Nintendo Power Strategy Guide” by Bryan Ochalla on Flickr: h:ps://www.flickr.com/photos/bochalla/4369890334

Don’t you wish you had a strategy guide for working with people?

Peer evaluations should be part of an ongoing and immediate feedback loop.

This slide (and others) made possible via the teamwork of…

John Butler

Matt Farley

Natalie Harrison

Lisa Komidar

Dave Sandor

Veronica Terrill

Sonya Woods

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Communicating Effectively

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Meeting Deadlines

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Mentoring Others

We are preparing all learners: future champions, future lifeguards, future coaches, and people who can at least stay afloat.

Education is not about the filtering of students.

It’s about the scaffolding of them.

The best ways to reach Nikki are __________ , __________ , & __________.

Tweeting @nikkimk

Emailing

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Invoking her name three times:NikkiMKNikkiMKNikkMK