Tag: Game Based Learning
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The power of the token economy
I’m sure you’ve seen one of those posters quoting ” – everything you need to know you likely learned in kindergarden – ” One of those things is that part of the world works because you have enough coins/stars/stickers. These are part of the token economy that is present in elementary school classrooms. Kids earn…
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The Role of Play in Learning with Technology – an ELI Webinar
Through some interruptions, I was able to take in most of the recent ELI webinar (Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Barbara Draude presenting) on play, and in classic conference style, the best parts that I took away were from the back/side channel with the main event providing the fuel/fodder. The presentation very rightly started by pointing out…
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flOw
Whoa… this was a medatative, zenlike game experience and if there is an embodiment of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory, this is it. My brain feels massaged after playing this. The dynamic difficulty and intrinsic reward structure of the game makes it very addictive. It would be amazing if we could structure classes like this –…
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Silly Spore Science
A while ago, my brother and I were talking about some of the games that are playable with little ones around and just about every one that came up was Wii only. Then this weekend, he noticed that his XBOX 360 had updated after not having network access for almost three months. The new interface…
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Crayon Physics
One of the things that I enjoyed when taking physics courses was drawing the little diagrams to help explain the problem that I was trying to solve. This is a technique that is good for all manner of disciplines, but it seems to have been adopted best by Physics. So when I saw this game,…