1. Signing Up: Due 8 am Sat Two forms: Calendar is fixed Critique
Research
Calendar is fixed
Choose a game that you want to critique
Actually 5 possible games
Choose a topic
Can choose a team to work with
Again choose 5 topics

2. Why Serious games work

3. learning

4. Evolution Games to teach individual concepts Multiplayer classrooms
Schools structured as games
Quest to Learn (NPR story)

5. What’s the idea? But is there science behind this? Games engage people
Engaged people work longer, learn better
Along with a learning curve, there is a forgetting curve
People forget slower with games
… because they learned it better?
But is there science behind this?

6. Learning Theory Support
Experiential learning
Inquiry-based learning
Authenticity
Self-efficacy
Goal-setting
Continual feedback
Cooperation

7. Biology Support Brain retains only the important
Important = emotionally significant
Releases dopamine in amygdala
Game playing increases dopamine
But what about studies?

8. University of Virginia Studies
Business
Economics
Means of Test Scores
Management

9. Games or Multimedia? New generation, New paradigms … Geology Explorer
North Dakota State University
Geology Explorer
Virtual Cell
Lecture baseline
Web-based presentation
No significant increase
Virtual world game
15-40% increase
Lecture baseline
Web-based presentation
13-30% increase
Virtual world game
30-63% increase
New generation, New paradigms …

10. Digital Natives (vs Digital Immigrants)
Receive information rapidly
Parallel process
Multi-task
Prefer graphics first
Prefer random access
Thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards
Fundamentally think and process information differently

11. Population Changes Boomer ‘46-’64 Gen X ‘65-’79 Gen Y ‘80-’94 Gen Z
‘95-
Training
Too much and I’ll leave
Required to keep me
Continuous and expected
Learning Style
Facilitated
Independent
Collaborative and networked
Problem solving
Structured
Collaborative
Feedback
Once per year
Weekly or daily
On demand
Task changing
Slows me down
Necessary
Part of my daily routine
Lancaster & Stillman

12. Health

13. Managing Illness (2 SNE games 1995)
Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus
Asthma
45% reduction in crises
Packy and Marlon
Diabetes
70% reduction in crises

14. Pain Management
Free Dive
SnowWorld

15. Rehabilitation: PTSD Tailor environments to traumatic experience
Relive as much as can tolerate
Significant results
Full Spectrum Warrior

16. Physical Therapy Injury Surgery Stroke Alzheimer Parkinson’s Burns
More fun = more time

17. Exergaming Started with Wii Better than videos? Now on
Wii Fit
EA Active
Now on
Kinect (Microsoft, Nike)
Playstation Move
And smartphones
Zombies Run!
Better than videos?
Are these games?
Does it matter?

18. Games With A Purpose

19. Gaming can make a better world
Jane McGonigal
Gaming can make a better world
TED talk

20. The Big Idea There are things that people can do better than machines
There are lots of people with a bit of time
The more people, the more diversity, the more different approaches
Crowdsourcing!

21. Two Examples FoldIt GWAP Folding Proteins
Goal: to fold a protein according to constraints at the lowest energy level
Recent: Misfolding and Alzheimer’s
EteRNA: for RNA
Knowledge Gathering
Various Games
Human association
Image tagging

22. Social Impact Games

23. Social Change: Opinions
Letters to the editor
Articles
Books
Television shows
Documentaries
Movies
Web Sites
Blogs
Radio shows
Music
Paintings
Sculptures
Photographs
Signs

24. Social Change Transform Awareness Commentary PeaceMaker Garbage Glut
3rd World Farmer
Darfur is Dying

25. Resources

26. Some Interesting Web Sites
The Educational Game Database
Games for Change
Marc Prensky