IDGBL Week 11 – Motivation and Emotion Notes

What has my IDGBL story been? How has engagement with the course led to a shift in your thinking? Frustration and resilience – WoW being kicked from the dungeon Intrinsic motivation – comes from engagement with a task Extrinsic motivation – comes from the application of an external reward for successful completion Cognition and affect. How we…

IDGBL Week 11 – Tutorial – Charlie and Paul Notes

Put people into groups to work together to create a game and gain literacies Quizzed on how elements of Gee’s principles/ motivation is impacted by games Google forms are great for collecting data Interested to see how Gee’s principles relate to work of class craft Narrative/ storytelling in games – beginning, middle, end Something to…

Sandboxes, creativity and survival – weeks 4-5

To position this post I have included previous Minecraft blogs that I completed as part of IDEL. I felt like this was a good thing to do to remind myself of where I was at when I encountered Minecraft for the first time. Sandbox games free the player from traditional video game structures and direction…

W,S,A,D,E,Scroll,Space,Shift – Weeks 4-5

This blog post has been taken from my IDEL blog and was posted on 16th October 2016. Since my W,S,A,D post I have, as I said I would been using Minecraft. I have been using it to experiment with building structures and to learn about what Minecraft actually is. I still can’t really answer that question,…

IDGBL – Weeks 9-10 Mobile Games

I wanted to take some opportunity to jot down my thoughts on mobile games before I get stuck in so here goes. I have had iPhone’s for as long as I can remember so most games I play/ have played are on IOS. I tend to not really use Android devices and plus, they usually…

It’s ok to not be ok

Suits (2005) reflects that people choose to play games as a “voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles”. Over the past weeks of exploring games, game-based learning and those things associated I have explored emotion in a multitude of ways. Emotion within games Emotion whilst playing games A storyline that includes emotion Emotion and a form…

Being open to games and play

I have always considered myself to be open-minded and accepting. However, learning on IDGBL has shown me that perhaps I wasn’t as open-minded and accepting as I first thought. It’s a funny thing, opening yourself up to experiencing something new. It is both exhilarating an terrifying. Positively Present identify 7 benefits of being open-minded: Letting go of control Experiencing changes Making yourself vulnerable…

IDGBL Week 3 – 13 Principles of Gaming and Learning from James Gee

Taken from: How good video games create good effective learning, how they teach people how to solve problems and to become good learners. Empowered Learners – learner must feel like what they do matters Co-design – What you do in a game effects the game and effects the outcome, to be a successful player you…

Does play have its hooks in me?

I’ve dabbled in play and games in the past but never found myself wanting to go back, continuously. People talk of being hooked and feeling a need and desire to play often and for large amounts of time, but this is not something I’ve ever experienced. Until now. Week 4 saw us playing Minecraft in Survival…

Games and me – a starting point

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on where I’m at, right now with games. I hope that this is something I can re-visit as I learn more. Completing the Understanding Learning in an Online Environment really catalysed my interest in the use of games for learning. It really highlighted area’s of…

I suck at Pacman

I’ve played Pacman multiple times over the years and it’s something I seem to never get better at. I anticipated, that I would improve over time, or with a break. I tried both, neither helped. For the first hundred or so attempts, I didn’t realise that there was more than one level. When I finally…

IDGBL – Week 2 Readings and Notes

The “effects” of video games: “So we need to guard against thinking that the presence of a correlation necessarily implies a causal link, or that the direction of causation will proceed in the way that we might first assume.” Association sometimes provides us with evidence to work with. Inductive Reasoning The process of gathering evidence…