Q n A

  • Questions
    • what learning games have you played? can you categorize them by the theory of learning types: behaviorism, constructivism, constructivism or social nature? if you played more than one which was the most effective?
    • I’ve played many different learning games, mostly for school in the past. These include:
    • Study Island: Behaviorism game, as it is a game that rewards correct responses and reinforce learning the more it is repeated/also gives the player results.
    • Assassins Creed Discovery Tour: Constructivism – due to the ability to explore the map to learn more about history.
    • Legos: not sure if this is a game to everyone but its a game to me: Constructionism – due to the playability of building things.
    • For Social Learning: I’d have to say Kahoot, as even though I wouldn’t always get to collab, the ability to play with a partner VS the whole class is a potential for some fun collab work.
    • Constructionism is my favorite but that’s also because I’m a sucker for Legos.
    • is gamification bullshit, what is ian bogost’s argument and do you agree? where have you encountered it outside of class and what was your experience?
    • Ian argues that gamification is BS due to the fact that instead of working on making a game interesting or engaging to the player, a lot of times people just attempt to make a game with win and loose mechanics rather than engaging the player and making them feel a certain way. This reminds me of the type of games I’ve had to play for school, such as study island, where the games were more fun than the tests sure, however they were the least bit of engaging.
    • What is a serious game and why aren’t they chocolate covered broccoli?
    • A serious game is a game designed with the soul intention of being worth more than just entertainment to the player. This means that there is typically a deeper message or meaning behind the gameplay itself. Its not chocolate covered broccoli because that’s just veggies covered in desert (AKA learning in disguise that isn’t that great at hiding it)

2 Replies to “Q n A”

  1. I have never heard of most of the learning games that you have played other than Kahoot but they sound interesting.

  2. I also played Study Island in elementary school, but I don’t remember much about it at all. But that is a great example of one.

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