5th World: What’s Next in Ed Tech National School Boards Association,

October 2006, JimBrazell@ventureramp.com

What is this?

TERAFLOP SUPER COMPUTER for $300!

10 years ago, the cost of a 2 Teraflop supercomputer was $100M. --Frietas, The Future of Computers

“The medium is

the message”

What is the message?

What is the average age of all video gamers in US?

Entertainment Software Association (ESA), 2005 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry, May 18, 2005.

“My 66 year old mom plays World of

Warcraft.” --Kerem Floor, Digital Learning Landscapes, Stavanger, Norway

What percent female and

male?

55% and 43% of all games

Entertainment Software Association (ESA), 2005 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry, May 18, 2005.

“It’s not true that women do not like to

hunt. They like to hunt in packs and

with a reason to kill.” --My Mom

Lineage

Games are a medium—not content.

Case 4: Disaster Configurator for the Rotterdam Port Authority

Case study: Emergency Response Training, Pjotr van Schothorst

VSTEP BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The medium of gaming represents a qualitative shift in learning systems.

Games are an extension of the physical environment.

Games are an extension of the human nervous system.

The physical world is an extension of games.

This is about much, much more than fun and games. On 10.19.2006, the MacArthur Foundation announced a $50MM fund for digital learning and games.

Jobs Context

A robust program of research and experimentation is needed to enhance development of educational games by stimulating transfer of the art and technologies of video games to education and learning systems. High development costs in an uncertain market for educational innovations make developing complex high-production learning games too risky for video game and educational materials industries. Educational institutions need to transform organizational systems and instructional practices to take greater advantage of new technology, including educational games. Outcome data from large-scale evaluations of educational games are needed to demonstrate that these technologies are equal to or offer comparative advantage vs. conventional IM.

We seek to advance the learning and career development of science, technology, engineering and mathematics domains (STEM) using a vanguard educational solution that combines real world simulation tools with video game technologies.

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Games for…

Games for Health

Serious Games

Games for Change

Learning Games

Case study: Emergency Response Training, Pjotr van Schothorst

VSTEP BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

USC ISI and Tactical Language Training

(ITSEC 2005)

NETC – 24 Blue

(ITSEC 2005)

French Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope has announced the launch of an online game for the country's taxpayers to have a go at balancing the books.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4946496.stm

Games for…

Games for Health

Serious Games

Games for Change

Learning Games

www.food-force.com

seriousgames.dk

Games for…

Games for Health

Serious Games

Games for Change

Learning Games

VRPHOBIA.COM Fear of flying, fear of

driving, fear of heights, fear of public

speaking, fear of thunderstorms, claustrophobia,

agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder, and

posttraumatic stress disorder due to motor

vehicle accidents

http://www.hopelab.org/remission.html

$7.5 million project that immerses students in the hectic environment of a hospital's intensive care unit and places them in a first-person role as a health-care professional. Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Pulse!! is being developed by Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, which in turn hired Hunt Valley (Md.)-based BreakAway to produce and design the platform. –Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2006/id20060410_051875.htm

Pulse!!

Games for…

Games for Health

Serious Games

Games for Change

Learning Games

Recruiting Games

COPYRIGHT 2003-2005 CRITICAL MASS INTERACTIVE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

USAF: AIR DOMINANCE ACTION FLIGHT SIMULATOR

Documentary and Activist

Games

http://parisriots.free.fr

http://www.kumawar.com/ http://www.kumawar.com/

http://www.selectparks.net/911survivor/

ctlss.com/treasure_hunt/html/main.html

www.pacmanhattan.com

www.tele-actor.net

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Source: Brazell, IC2 Institute, 2004

Yang Cai, Ingo Snel, Betty Chenga, Suman Bharathi, Clementine Klein d, Judith Klein-Seetharaman; Carnegie Mellon University, University of Frankfurt, Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

www.andrew.cmu.edu/~ycai/biogame.pdf

BIOSIM 1.0

SIMChallenge

Recommendation #1: Increase emphasis on evaluating the effectiveness of new learning technologies and approaches to designing and implementing such systems. Use an adaptive learning approach that integrates real world problems, data, processes and systems; empirical research and human performance; and instructional design and delivery. The key is to integrate empirical research into the design and implementation of new modes of learning in order to inform future selection and variation of learning systems. This requirement is also shared by the US Department of Education (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in its efforts toward educational reform especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Glucoboy The video game that runs on blood.

www.virtual-u.org

DMC Lab Project: Medical Leadership Trainer - Scenario

Authoring Engine

“Joe Medic” UT Austin DMC and

Fort Sam Houston AMED NCO Academy

Different rooms for learning styles

Group work

Reflective observation

Active experimentation

GC: Palestine

Lecture Abstract concepts

Concrete experiences

•  Kolb’s cycle covered with different teaching forms in the course.

•  The teacher is crucial to facilitate a full learning experience.

Empirical study

Context is King!

How are games different than

Modeling, Simulation and

Training?

Population: 1.4MM Growth: 1200/day

Educational Sites 3 - 5 minutes EA online games 9 minutes AOL Entertainment 10 minutes Whyville.net 59 minutes Yahoo! Games 78 minutes

MEAN TIME PER USER LOGIN Discovery.com: 96 million Whyville.net: 58.4 million BigChalk: 11 million Time for Kids: 8 million New York Times Learning Net: 1.2 million Cosmogirl: 425,000

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The average time per log in July was 3.8 hours making it second to Neopets.

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SPACE STATION

Whyville City Hall

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Whyville Senators

OrEoBaBy

Sooner

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0 clams

80 clams

20 clams

50 clams

100 clams

Progressive Involvement

Feb. 14- March 13, 2002 3,000 BBS postings

www.watercoolergames.org

forecasting.tstc.edu

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NOSE

Vienna University of Technology Players operate track switches and adjusting the speed of virtual trains to prevent virtual trains from colliding. Researchers Daniel Wagner, Thomas Pintaric and Dieter Schmalstieg

Time to Market Time to Market

Improved Target Acquisition System Trainer

Augmented Human Cognition

Sandia National Laboratories, 2002

BMH, Delta 3D, DARPA, 2005

Machine Reality

Video games are leading us to

new affective, cognitive and psychomotor

domains of HSI…

A new

relationship between

humans and machines.

What is this new relationship? What does it

look like?

What is this?

http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/

Berkeley’s Golem Dust 11.7 mm3 total circumscribed volume

~4.8 mm3 total displaced volume

Berkeley’s Deputy Dust 6.6 mm3 total circumscribed

volume 4th Gen

11.7 mm3

6.6 mm3

MIT Tech Review, 2005

Sensors

Physical

Chemical

Biological http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/bbl/03102801.pdf , page 16

Actuators

Physical

Chemical

Biological

PhiloMetron™

4th GEN

MIT Technology Review,

January, 2005

4th GEN

Micro-robotics team and biologists at Tsukuba University

Source: The Guardian Date: 2 May 2002

State University of New York (Suny)

"Go go gadget: With a remote control sensor hotwired to its central

nervous system, developments like the

"roborat," created at SUNY's Downstate

Medical Center, herald the coming of the

biotronic age.

What is the message?

We need to think beyond

these.

v

v

Nanobionics: What is the message?

Tethered bacterium

Swimming bacterium Swimming speed ~ 20-30 µm Protons flux/motor ~ 1200 proton/rev

Tethered bacterium Motor efficiency ~ 90-100 % Output power ~ 2.9×10-4 pW Stall torque ~ 4600 pN-nm

Nano-motor (45 nm wide) Genetic Engineering

Harmless E. coli

Mohamed Al-Fandi, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of NEMS & MEMS Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Biomechanics University of Texas

Adapted from Charles Ostman Senior Fellow

Institute for Global Futures

NEURO NANO

BIO INFO

21st Century Architecture

Adapted from Charles Ostman Senior Fellow

Institute for Global Futures

NEURO NANO

BIO INFO

S&T Convergence

We live in a constructionist world which is open to design. The world is

extensible.

How can we characterize this technological age?

By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish…. Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allowing Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater -- turning sci-fi into reality.

Brain Port: Warriors of the future will 'taste' battlefield CNN - Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Posted: 11:23 a.m. EDT (15:23 GMT)

www.kurzweilai.net/.../ SIN_headshot_highres.html

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate)… because we're doubling the rate of progress every decade, we'll see a century of progress--at today's rate--in only 25 calendar years.” Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net, March 7, 2001.

Cybernetics is the discipline that studies and creates communication and control systems in living organisms and in the machines built by humans. Greek kybernetes (meaning steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder).

Industrial Age

Notion of INFO AGE

Historic – Economic – Social Shift

Cybernetic Age

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Player Incr. hand-eye coord reaction time spatial visualization neuro-psych. tests visual attentiveness and mental rotation

http://www.wehealnewyork.org/BI%20Surgeon%20teams%20up%20with%20Hollywood.htm

James “Butch” Rosser, M.D., Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Director of the Advanced Medical Technology Institute (AMTI) Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan

According to Rosser’s study, surgeons who currently play or previously played video games had a 37% reduction in errors and accomplish laparoscopic

surgical tasks 27% quicker.

US Nano Soldier FCS 2020

Big Sesh Studios Austin, TX

defenselink.mil/news/Jul2004/n07272004_2004072705.html

Game Builder – Nano Soldier

US Nano Soldier

FCS 2020

UT, DMC: NERO

Game Builder – AI for Sensors

Game

Operators

http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/JPODOCS/REPTS_TE/13599.html http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/contractors/traffic_man/electrosonic/electrosonic1.html

ß BACK FLIP

C4 Operations Centers Air Land Sea Space Cyber

forecasting.tstc.edu

The learning and workforce needs of the game industry are most similar to the needs of 21st Century science (nano-bio-info-neuro).

Adapted from Charles Ostman Senior Fellow

Institute for Global Futures

NEURO NANO

BIO INFO S&T Convergence

Nanobionics: What is the message?

Tethered bacterium

Swimming bacterium Swimming speed ~ 20-30 µm Protons flux/motor ~ 1200 proton/rev

Tethered bacterium Motor efficiency ~ 90-100 % Output power ~ 2.9×10-4 pW Stall torque ~ 4600 pN-nm

Nano-motor (45 nm wide) Genetic Engineering

Harmless E. coli

Mohamed Al-Fandi, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of NEMS & MEMS Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Biomechanics University of Texas

Engineering Biology

Chemistry Physics

Computer Science

Nanobionics

Engineering Biology

Chemistry Physics

Computer Science

Game Builder

GAME TEAMS

Games have captured millennials imagination

and time.

Leverage the attention economy of games to

develop next generation workforce.

We need to pierce the veil of play and support

game-based constructivist learning.

Transdisciplinarity is the common

denominator.

Games NANO BIO INFO NEURO

Game Builder = System Builder

TEAMS Educational Pull

5th World Millennials Not Low Socio-Economic Status

Ninja’s Crew, GameCamp, 2005

Why do you modify games?

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9

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Playing Yes

Playing No

Learning Yes

Learning No

Show Yes

Show No

Better Yes

Better No

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48

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Graduate HS Graduate CC or TC Graduate University

Plans for education

Computer Science 20

Video Game Design 9

Design/Art 8

Write in to survey

5th World

How are 5th World’ers

exercising 21st century learning and work skills

today?

Math Engineering

Tech Science

What are they learning?

?

Math Engineering

Tech Science

Arts

What are they learning?

Math Engineering

Tech Science

TEAMS

What are they learning?

“Nobelist Herbert A. Simon has written that the availability of technologies to youth is its own instructor.”

Dr. George Kozmetsky

Mixing Realities –

Physical, virtual, imaginary and machine

TEAMS –

Transdisciplinary communities of practice

SWARMING –

Network socialization and learning (communal)

GROUP –

Global Generation

1980

Emergence of the 5th World

1982 1964 1946

Boomers

Generation X

Millennials

46-64

65-79

82-Present

5th World

4th World = Digital

Divide

What about the digital divide?

4th World Millennials Low Socio-Economic Status

Goldberg’s Crew, Houston Community College

This study was funded by the State Farm Companies Foundation and by Dr. George Kozmetsky (1917-2003), founder of the IC² Institute. The study was designed and analyzed, and the report was written by a team at The University of Texas at Austin: Aliza Gold, Senior Producer and Researcher at the Digital Media Collaboratory, part of the IC² Institute Emily Durden, PhD candidate in Sociology Marjorie L. Kase, M.A. in Communication Shane Alluah, PhD candidate in Educational Psychology Ana Boa-Ventura, PhD candidate in Communication The research team would like to thank the participating schools and their administrators: Elgin Middle School Goodnight Middle school Miller Junior High Fleming Middle School

Low SES: More TV and More Video

Games

TV

Games

A. Gold, IC2 Institute, UT Austin, Forthcoming

Females Males Designer/Decorator Professional athlete

Doctor Video Game Designer

Cosmetologist Business Owner

Lawyer Engineer

Teacher Lawyer

Business Owner Military Service

Musician/Singer Auto Mechanic

Cook/Chef Computer Programmer

A. Gold, IC2 Institute, UT Austin, Forthcoming

0102030405060708090

100

High schoolor less

Communitycollege/technical

Collegedegree or beyond

How Much Education do You Want?

WhiteAfrican AmericanLatinoOther

How much education?

A. Gold, IC2 Institute, UT Austin, Forthcoming

4th World

22

48

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Graduate HS Graduate CC or TC Graduate University

Plans for education

Computer Science 20

Video Game Design 9

Design/Art 8

Write in to survey

5th World

What is the fundamental

difference between the 4th

and the 5th world?

4th World Millennials Low Socio-Economic Status

Arnold Goldberg’s Game Campers, HCC

5th World Millennials Not Low Socio-Economic Status

Ninja’s Crew, GameCamp, 2005

The toys we play with as

children!

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Transcend the semantic gap between “gaming” and

learning. Game systems, game technologies and gaming techniques are

transforming the world at Kurzweil’s pace.

www.kurzweilai.net/.../ SIN_headshot_highres.html

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate)… because we're doubling the rate of progress every decade, we'll see a century of progress--at today's rate--in only 25 calendar years.” Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net, March 7, 2001.

Cut the time between the discover of new

learning science and it’s application in the

classroom.

Michigan State University

The SGD-MA is designed to prepare students for industry, as well as academic pursuits, including careers in:

· Game design

· Educational media design and production

· Health media design and production

· Simulation design and production

· Corporate training

· Military simulation and training

· Interactive media design and production

· Advergaming

· Digital media consultant

· Academia (background for PhDs in mass communication, education, computer science, psychology, digital rhetoric)

Modeling, Simulation and Gaming (MS&G) require

an evolution of our notions of media literacy,

media criticism, educational technology and 21st Century skills.

Experiment with

learning systems

that integrate physical,

virtual, imaginary

and machine realities.

Join emerging global education networks such as NMC to develop collaboration and to learn.

Place equal value on playing games

to learn and building games to

learn.

Learning games represent a new mode

of instruction to be blended with current

pedagogical techniques.

Population: 1.4MM Growth: 1200/day

Educational Sites 3 - 5 minutes EA online games 9 minutes AOL Entertainment 10 minutes Whyville.net 59 minutes Yahoo! Games 78 minutes

MEAN TIME PER USER LOGIN Discovery.com: 96 million Whyville.net: 58.4 million BigChalk: 11 million Time for Kids: 8 million New York Times Learning Net: 1.2 million Cosmogirl: 425,000

PAGE VIEWS

© num

edeon, inc. 2003"

The average time per log in July was 3.8 hours making it second to Neopets.

Leverage free world-class learning environments such

as whyville, squeak and alice.

Different rooms for learning styles

Group work

Reflective observation

Active experimentation

GC: Palestine

Lecture Abstract concepts

Concrete experiences

•  Kolb’s cycle covered with different teaching forms in the course.

•  The teacher is crucial to facilitate a full learning experience.

Empirical study

Contact jim@ventureramp.com

you would like to be part of the March 2007

launch of Global Conflicts.

Place equal value on playing games

to learn and building games to

learn.

Building games represents a qualitative

transformation of our notion of production,

learning and R&D. They are united in game

construction into one transdisciplinary act.

Math Engineering

Tech Science

Arts

K-12 Transformation

gameCAMP is for teachers

too…

SpaceTEAMS

Gameboy Video Game BRAIN

Vision System

Lego Actuators and Building Blocks

Link the pipeline forward and backward..

Elementary

spaceTEAMS San Antonio,TX

Robot competition

plus career and academic exploration

and history of science and technology.

spaceTEAMS San Antonio,TX

Middle School

US First-EISD Andrew Schuetze San Antonio,TX

High School

If we use games as “bait”, we must bridge…

Mechatronics The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronics, control systems and computers. Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Departments at RPI All Contents Copyright(C) 2001 Mechatronics Lab at RPI

Think BIG and place gaming in

a larger context…

“spaceTEAMS can return San Antonio to the path of human development and space exploration making it in the realm of possibility that the first person to walk on Mars will be from San Antonio.” --General Robert F. McDermott and Dr. Francis “Duke” Kane

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What is this?

Learning Machine

21st Century Teacher

Can you make the shift?

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5th World: What’s Next in Ed Tech National School Board Association,

October 2006, Jim Brazell, Ventureramp.com