Gamification in school (GWMSTHLM 2015)
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This document discusses using gamification and game-based learning in schools. It notes that games can make learning more fun and engaging by incentivizing students. It also argues that games teach students to work together to overcome challenges and redefine failure as an opportunity to improve. The document suggests the future of learning may increasingly incorporate games and their ability to motivate thinking.
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Gamification in school (GWMSTHLM 2015)
- 1. Gamification in School & Game Based Learning 2015-05-09 Jan Bidner
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- 20. ”Only those who are not afraid of failing can achieve great things” - Robert Kennedy
- 21. © Sogeti Redefine Failure 21 GUITAR HERO: Failed NO REPLAY
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- 29. © Sogeti 29 Thanks for listening! @janbidner 1 > Imagination eats breakfast (yummy)! 2 > Failure is not an option 3 > #mymagicnumber3
Editor's Notes
- It’s an honour to go first. I’m so excited to be here. Amongst you all. I have been looking forward for this. These are my personal thoughts on why we need gamification in school.
- When you leave today I want you to leave with three things:
- One - imagination eats knowledge for breakfast any day
- Two - the greatest innovations came out of trying and failing (even Bjorn Borg did his 10 000 hours. Thomas Edison - famously quoted - never failed he just found 10000 ways that didn't work before he finally came up with the light bulb. Both Einstein and Newton where perceived as hopeless cases in their childhood. Einstein didn't talk until he was four. )
- Three - there is no three. Just sounds better. Because: Three is a magical number. Three is YOUR opportunity for a contribution. You know what. Everyone on Twitter: tweet hashtag #mymagicnumber3 and what you think is the third opportunity for schools when it comes to gamification.
- gamification in school and game based learning is a subject really close to my heart - - so bare with me if I get too emotional. It has been known to happen.
- And also I am not going to talk today about the problem with the school system. That it hasn't really evolved. That we still measure the wrong things, that it is fucked up when it comes to the feedback loop and that it is based upon that crazy crazy assumption that learning and producing educated human beings is an industrial process. I'm not going to talk about that because Ken Robinson does a much better job on that. I will provide links to that with my transcript of this speech. But you need to KNOW that that is a base presumption of mine.
- When I was in elementary school, back in the early eighties, augmented reality was a simple fact. I was a kid with a vivid imagination and I liked to play alone and making things up. I didn’t need any technical aid. This was helpful to me in the long run. I say "in the long run" Because it didn't seem helpful back then. I didn't even know it was a good thing. But it was.
- So when I say augmented I literally mean that Everything had an extra layer on top of it and It didn't even take technology to achieve this. This was my survival strategy for my lack of engagement and meaning
- Walking home from school could be a rewarding experience full of adventures with a chance of collecting LOVE-power or FRIEND-boosters. Did you guys do this?
- Some people who are critical about gamification rhetorically asks if everything tastes better covered in chocolate. Does it? Like broccoli. Like chocolate covered broccoli. I love broccoli. And I love chocolate too. Not just together. Well not all the time anyway. And I think that is the main point to be made here.
- You need to pick carefully WHAT you want an extra layer on top of. I mean strawberries for example they are perfected already. Why put chocolate on that? And poop... We don’t wanna go there. You need to know WHY you need that layer and you also - and this is important- you need to know what that layer is to be. There are other flavours than chocolate.
- And sometimes - sometimes when the answer to WHY is "because it makes no sense" (Like advanced Maths) or because it's boring (like Swedish agricultural history) - you need to be more of a Michelin star rated restaurant chef when picking the sauce. Maybe it needs to be injected INSIDE of the broccoli? Sometimes the best thing is to put the fun incentives on the side. And something's don't need any sauce at all.
- Like zombies. Or dinosaurs. Kids don't need gamification to learn just about everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Hell they don't even need school for that. Why? I'll tell you why. Because dinosaurs are the strawberries of learning. Because of our inherent drive and passion to learn NEW Things about Things that evokes our curiosity, makes sense Or just plainly scares the shit out of us.
- We are humans. We want to learn. That is our main purpose and our basic means for survival. It's in our veins. And learning is so easy when you are fascinated. Because dinosaurs are fascinating. They eat other animals. Big animals. They could even eat you. Well they couldn't cause they are extinct. But they make so much sense. And they are interesting.
- Another thing that makes sense to every kid - young and old - are games. They make sense because they are fun, provide feedback and create immersive experiences. Kids spend hours and hours of playing these games. Mastering them. An average kid spends just as much time playing games like minecraft as they spend in school. Even more. And you know what. They learn more from them. We need to whisper now. Because this is controversial. This is a revolution. This is not chocolate covered broccoli. This is rad.
- Games or gamified experiences doesn’t need to be technically advanced as minecraft or provide as much exploration as Minecraft. Just as long as they make sense. To me. Where I am. Right now.
- Maybe the game itself sometimes is just a vehicle for learning other stuff. Learning strategy, other language and collaboration skills. Things that have to be mastered in order to score high and win the game. Positive side effects some might say…
- School is not very forgiving about failure. A lot has to do about right and wrong. Failure is not rewarded. Taking risks are not rewarded. You get marks and are rewarded for compliance. Not for being innovative.
- How can you learn anything if you afraid of failing?
- Trying and retrying is at the core of any game or gamified experience. And a necessity when it comes to mastery. My son he plays these songs on Guitar Hero on expert level like a pro. It’s amazing. You can’t follow. It’s almost impossible. Now imagine Sony would have designed playing Guitar Hero – like doing a school exam…. You play on medium and fail. Now you will have to wait one week and you get your final score. Failed. Now lets move on to something completely different…
- So why do we put our kids through school? Why do we need teachers? Do we? Are teachers obsolete? No. We just have to redefine what it means to be a teacher. Reinvent the role of the teacher. Before I was born my grandfather was a teacher in Ockelbo. He was one of the most powerful men in all of Ockelbo back in the fifties. Knowledge was power. It still is. But it is ubiquitous today.
- It is not encapsulated in the closer-to-God-than-the-village-priest-school-teacher but it's on YouTube and Wikipedia. We tell stories together. Learn together. We are social.
- And through games and gamified experiences we could create the best learning experiences to engage all kinds of humans - not only those with good reading heads. Interactive learning in any form is more democratic to everyone. Because some don't dare to be daydreamers and augment their own more or less meaningless reality.
- Teachers don't need to stuff facts and knowledge down the throats of the kids anymore. They need to be guides. Sitting in the passenger seats and asking THEM – the kids - for directions. Inspiring kids to find their own questions. empower them. Teach them to think and lay out learning paths.
- And for gods sake: we need to meet kids in their own arenas. Anything else is stupid. Just that I love books and have always done doesn't mean that that is the best way to learn. Not even to me. That's just nostalgia and inflexibility.
- We don’t know what future schools will look like. Just not the same. Maybe this guy is the role model for future tutors? I dont’ mean myself or that soldier but that little flying things hovering our shoulders. It is called GHOST and is the tutor and guide of PS4-game Destiny. By your side and and protecting you from enemies and telling you things on a need to know basis.
- So to sum it up…
- I could go on forever but time is running out. Catch me at lunch or Twitter and we could continue this conversation. I'll leave you with this picture. Come talk to me. - Imagination eats knowledge for breakfast - Failure is just trying and retrying #mymagicnumber3