Swsr Game Taxonomy Final

EPIC WIN OR FAIL?Teacher and student experiences of ICT.

@deangroom • Macquarie University, Learning and Teaching Centre.

Friday, 26 March 2010

ICT in School

What do you get to use in high school?

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Social media is either a time-wasting, wool-gathering, yak-shaving waste of effort or, perhaps, just maybe, it’s a crack in the wall between you and the rest of the world.

It’s a choice... up to you.

Seth Godin


Why am I doing this? Is this what you want?

R U grading me?

Is this relevant?

Will I get to choose?

Is this too hard?

Is this too easy?

What can I do with this?

Can I work with my friends? Do I know this

already?

How do I knowI’ve Iearned it?

Web2.0 - Pretty exciting, if you’re a teacher.

Huh?

Fail:D


WHO AM Iand who are you?


BUILD A STRONG ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

ACROSS OUR SCHOOLS AND HELP TEACHERS EFFECTIVELY INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY TO

SUPPORT ENGAGING CLASSROOM PRACTICES.


Not me:Not you:

US!


This presentation is not ...



video gamessocial networks

Twitter

NetbooksVirtual Worlds

Filters Blogs

Wikis



video gamessocial networks

Twitter

NetbooksVirtual Worlds

Filters Blogs

Wikis

its about engagement


"Look, if this Google thing pans out, then great. If not, you can return to graduate school and

finish your thesis."

Google Founders ...Sergey Brin to Larry Page, 1997.

http://bit.ly/swsr01

Are we feeling the same about ICT?




Where is your comfort zone?


100% Comfortable?


50% Comfortable?


0% Comfortable?


0% Comfortable?

WHAT ARE THE FACTS:

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN IT:

WHAT’S YOURINTERPRETATION:


Brain-thawing activity.


Write down 5 things thatcome to mind when you

think ‘video games’


Write down a definition of ‘fable’.Give an example.


How many thought this?


How many thought this?

YouTube thinks it’s a game.


What do you see here?


Epic Win


GrindFriday, 26 March 2010

Urgentoptimism


Blissfullyproductive


Epicmeaning

Jane McGonigal


10,000 hoursby the age of 21.


(about the same as theyspend in school)

10,000 hoursby the age of 21.


By taking these factors out of education,we are in fact pedestrianising learning.

Learning becomes a flat-line chore incomparison to the tangential learningexperiences in social-play online.


Tangential or direct link with

educationaltheory?


TAXONOMY


TAXONOMY

• John Biggs describes his SOLO Taxonomy.


TAXONOMY


• Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes


TAXONOMY



• A method of incremental learning through 5 stages


TAXONOMY




• This can be observed in the way games ‘teach’ players


TAXONOMY




• This can be observed in the way games ‘teach’ players

• Recognised foundational principle in the design of learning


SOLO TAXONOMY


SOLO TAXONOMY

• Pre-structural: students are simply acquiring bits of unconnected information, which have no organisation and make no sense.


SOLO TAXONOMY


•Unistructural: simple and obvious connections are made, but their significance is not grasped


SOLO TAXONOMY


•Unistructural: simple and obvious connections are made, but their significance is not grasped

•Multistructural: a number of connections may be made, but the meta-connections between them are missed, as is their significance for the whole.


SOLO TAXONOMY


SOLO TAXONOMY

•Relational level: student is now able to appreciate the significance of the parts in relation to the whole.


SOLO TAXONOMY


•Abstract level: student is making connections not only within the given subject area, but also beyond it, able to generalise and transfer the principles and ideas underlying the specific instance.


SOLO TAXONOMY


•Abstract level: student is making connections not only within the given subject area, but also beyond it, able to generalise and transfer the principles and ideas underlying the specific instance.

•Not all learners reach these levels - deeper meaning, deeper learning and deeper engagement with the subject matter.


Teacher Cognition

Social

the bit that’s causing a fuss


Myst ... a 90s game being used in Primary

World of Warcraft ... game used in Secondary

Games in the the curriculum

http://www.mrwarner.com/myst/

http://wowinschool.pbworks.com






It is happening ...

Quest Atlantis ... in DET

OpenSim ... in DET


solo/game

Optimism (I can do this)

Productivity (I want to do it) - it’s enjoyable

Meaning (I see why I am doing it) - its matters

Epic Win - I achieved it - I am good at it.


solo/game





core


solo/game





core

important


solo/game





core

important

worthwhile


this is all about strategy

Rethinking theory and practice.Not learning new ‘tools’.

Its about new tenants of motivationplaced into learning frameworks


Machinima - Made by the students.


Blooms DigitalBlooms


Pedagogy“Any conscious activity by one person designed

to enhance the learning of others”Stephenson (2007)




Pedagogy is dominated by teachers.




Pedagogy is dominated by teachers.

New tools won’t change this.


Teachers understand pedagogy


Teachers understand pedagogy

Students understand cybergogy


World Cognition

Instructional Design, Facilitation, Error & Achievement, Practice

Social

CollaborateNegotiateSupport(learning)

CapabilitiesWorld

PersonalWork

RealismRelevanceResonance

(motivation)

personalconnections

& groups(influence)

climates networks

interplay

Spacesand networksthat provideand support

learninginteraction


CybergogyInstructional strategies,

archetypes or methods for facilitating learning.




Learning ArchetypesCognitive (intellect)Social (community)Dextrous (doing)

Affective (emotional)




Learning ArchetypesCognitive (intellect)Social (community)Dextrous (doing)

Affective (emotional)

these archetypes havenumerous subsets.

However these are thecore archetypes we

find social-play andsocial networks.


Worthwhile

Important

Core

CybergogyArchetypesPedagogy

CORE

IMPORTANT

WORTH IT!OutcomesActivity

Assessment


It is a mistake to skip, dismiss or ignorenew (to us) taxonomies and archetypes.

We can’t roll over and play dead.

Faculties must learn to balance pedagogyand cybergogy by carefully considering

the strategies, spaces and tools thateven a few years ago ... didn’t exist.


3 billion hours a week spent here.


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