Digital game design as a complex learning activity for developing the 4Cs skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical thinking

Digital game design as a complex learning activity

for developing the 4Cs skills:

Communication, Collaboration, Creativity

and Critical thinking.

[email protected]

@margaridaromero

Professor of educational technology

Faculté des Sciences de l’Éducation

Université Laval (Québec, Canada)11th Dec, 2015. Rome #galaconf

Research supported by

Romero, M. (2015). Digital game design as a complex learning activity for developing the 4Cs skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical thinking. Presented at the Game and Learning

Alliance conference (GALA 2015), Rome..

Presentation plan

ICT and DGBL for improving education, really?

Co-creative playful learning

ACT project : Intergenerational game creation workshops

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/p2w7Yn7e3snqjF

Creating computer-based life narratives

Research supported by Ageing + Communication + Technology www.actproject.ca

@MargaridaROMERO

http://www.actproject.ca/



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Latest OECD report on technology impact on

education (Sept. 2015) shows the opposite, why?


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Romero (2015)




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Co-creative playful learning



Research focus on co-creative playful learning

• Co-creating games with my students but also with my toodler,

a terrible-two game and sound designer (ScratchJr).

• ScratchJr is a “graphical programming language based on

Scratch and redesigned for the unique developmental and

learning needs of children in kindergarten to second grade”

(Flannery et al. 2013).

Co-creative playful learning research

+ playful parenting!




New friends (I): Partnership ACT

www.ACTproject.ca Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT)

– Partners from Canada, USA, Spain, Peru, UK,

Finland, The Netherlands, Romania, Malaysia…

– Silver Gaming working group

• Intergenerational game based learning

– Intergenerational CoCreation of Games

• Older adults game design (50+)

• Serious fun across the lifespan





@MargaridaROMERO

#SGISS15 : 65 participants !

Topics:

• participatory game design

• game based learning accross the lifespan

• intergenerational learning.


https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/78438600/#editor




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Digital game design as a complex learning activity

for developing the 4Cs skills:

Communication, Collaboration, Creativity

and Critical thinking.

[email protected]

@margaridaromero

Professor of educational technology

Faculté des Sciences de l’Éducation

Université Laval (Québec, Canada)11th Dec, 2015. Rome #galaconf


Thank you for your

attention, all feedback is

welcomed !

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http://intergen.fse.ulaval.ca

Eds. Romero, Sawchuk, Blat, Sayago, Ouellet

Advances in Game-based Learning (AGBL) book series of Springer

Game-Based Learning across the LifespanCross-generational and age-oriented digital game-based

learning from childhood to older adulthood.

Chris Gray and Alfonso Ippolito

Orientation towards a successful product

Trust

Freedom of expression

(Prior and ongoing) knowledge group

awareness

Playing with ideas

Generating new ideas

Engagement towards the group and task

Discussion

Education

Digital game design as a complex learning activity for developing the 4Cs skills: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical thinking