From Here: Unfinished BusinessGames and Learning, Summer 2013

Agenda� Where to go from here: Unfinished

business� Project Presentations� That’s It!

Specific Issues in Games and Learning� Gender� Race� Violence� Gamification

– Kapp, K. M. (2012). The gamification of learning and instruction: game-based methods and strategies for training and education. Wiley. com.

Addiction/Compulsion

“Dewey argued that aesthetic activity requires balance and proportion” the very thing that makes games so engaging and pleasurable can also cause addiction (Nardi, Chapter 6, p. 123)

Photo by Eran Fowler

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/game-addiction-pt.1

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/game-addiction-pt.1http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/game-addiction-pt.2http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/game-compulsion-part-3

Addiction/Compulsion

Gender - Girl GamersType “Girl Gamers” in Google’s image search and prepare to be shocked.

“Because I get mistaken for the receptionist or day-hire marketing at trade shows. #1reasonwhy”

“Because conventions, where designers are celebrated, are unsafe places for me. Really. I've been groped. #1reasonwhy”

Female Game Developers

Twitter hashtag discussion - November 26, 2012

Started with game designer and Kickstarter games specialist Luke Crane, who asked a deceptively simple question on Twitter: why are there so few "lady game creators"?

“an outcry by women within the industry in response to the sexism, and in some cases, misogyny that we have to experience simply by aligning ourselves with video games and tech.

“Because once I've been told "we don't need women in order to know what female players want from this industry1reasonwhy”

“Because the metrics team was shocked to discover that girls liked our game at all. Weren't even trying for that "demographic". #1reasonwhy”

Tropes vs Women - http://www.feministfrequency.com/2013/05/damsel-in-distress-part-2-tropes-vs-women/TED Talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q&feature=player_embedded

FeministFrequency.com by Anita Sarkeesian

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Simulatons� Aldrich, C. (2009). The complete guide

to simulations and serious games: how the most valuable content will be created in the age beyond Gutenberg to Google. Wiley. com.

Game Development� Gamemaker

– Habgood, J., & Overmars, M. (2006). The Game Maker's apprentice: Game development for beginners. Apress.

� Scratch– MIT– http://scratch.mit.edu/

Game Development� Unity3D

– http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules

� App Inventor– http://www.appinventor.org/projects

Final Thoughts on Games in Education

� Can you impose games on students and expect they will still have the same level of engagement?

� http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/games-in-education