gaming to learn

Dr. Leigh ZeitzUniversity of Northern Iowa

Dr. Leigh ZeitzUniversity of Northern Iowa

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Clear Goals Immediate Feedback Challenges >< Skills Merge Action &

Awareness Distractions excluded No worry of failure No Self-Consciousness Distorted Sense of Time Activity is Autotelic

An organized system using positive and negative feedback to direct a player towards a desired goal.

Xperience Points Leveling Up

ChoiceLong and Short AimsProgress IndicatorsPrompt/Meaningful FeedbackReward ALL Successful

EffortsFailure is RealElements of

Uncertainty/AwardsSocialization

Clear Goals Immediate Feedback Challenges >< Skills Merge Action &

Awareness Distractions excluded No worry of failure No Self-Consciousness Distorted Sense of

Time Activity is Autotelic

Long and Short Aims Prompt/Meaningful

Feedback Choice Progress Indicators Reward ALL

Successful Efforts Failure is Real Elements of

Uncertainty Socialization

P

ComplexAdaptiveSocialSearches for MeaningMeaning through PatterningEmotional PatterningDevelopmentalCraves Challenge Inhibited by ThreatEach Brain is Unique (Caine, 1994)

Orchestrated Immersion Complex, interactive

experiences

Relaxed Alertness Safe and highly-

challenging environment

Active Processing internalize info by

actively processing it

Critical Thinking Complex Communication Creativity Collaboration Flexibility and Adaptability Productivity and

Accountability Iowa Core

Curriculum, 2010

Construction of Learning Metacognition Educator/Student

Partnership Collaborative Learning Meaningful Assessment in

a Real World ContextIowa

Core Curriculum, 2010

World Without Oil Demand > Supply

(5%) 32 daysof crisis Players live

solutions Collective

Intelligence Problem Solving

We must teach our

students

for their tomorrows,

NOT our yesterdays.

We must teach our

students

for their tomorrows,

NOT our yesterdays.