{"id":18162,"date":"2017-11-27T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=11187"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:49","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/game-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Game On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Crabtree-PDX-Keynote.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11188\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Crabtree-PDX-Keynote-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Crabtree PDX Keynote\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The future of lifelong learning may very well be educational gaming.<br \/>\nIn a stunningly insightful and fun keynote before 700 LERN conference attendees, former Intel game developer Scott Crabtree reported on the science of learning based on games and outlined the four key intrinsic motivators for work, games and learning.<br \/>\nThen he took the audience by surprise with gifts, attendees keeping their own \u2018game\u2019 score, lots of participant motion, small group discussions, and using a catch box &#8211; a microphone hidden in foam that is thrown around the room so participant comments can be heard by all.<br \/>\nWhen asked, every one of the 700 lifelong learning practitioners had played a game. Some as recently as the day before.\u00a0 And some 10 to 15 percent of people reported they had created a game.<br \/>\nCrabtree works off the science, noting that the CEO of Intel once told his staff, \u201cAll of you have an opinion. A few of you have data.\u201d<br \/>\nThe four key intrinsic motivators for work, games, and learning are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autonomy<\/li>\n<li>Relatedness<\/li>\n<li>Mastery<\/li>\n<li>Surprise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those four are what makes for a good game, for a good work environment, and for good learning, he said.<br \/>\n<strong>Autonomy<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cPeople hate being micromanaged,\u201d Crabtree noted.\u00a0 Everyone loves autonomy. But actually, people perform better when given three best choices rather than unlimited choices.\u00a0 Even when individual choice is not optional, he noted that giving people \u201cwhy-in\u201d helps get \u201cbuy-in.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Relatedness<\/strong><br \/>\nIn one of the biggest takeaways from the conference, lifelong learning practitioners liked the idea of Pecha Xucha Night, one way to get connectedness among people to help them relate to new content and ideas.<br \/>\nIn Pecha Xucha Night, every person introduces themselves with 20 slides, each slide 20 seconds.\u00a0 Crabtree likes to cut that in half, with 10 slides, each shown for 10 seconds.<br \/>\n<strong>Mastery<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confidence.\u00a0 Mastery, Crabtree said, was not just about competence, but equally important, about being confident about one\u2019s competence.\u00a0 This is a new element in learning, the self-reporting of a learner being confident about an answer, and building teaching strategies around that.<\/li>\n<li>Rubber Banding.\u00a0 Rubber banding is a concept of dynamically adjusting the level of difficulty for a learner.\u00a0 So if in a particular learning task, it is too difficult, rubber banding makes the learning easier with techniques such as breaking down the task into multiple steps, or pairing people up, or giving people tasks they are good at. And if the learning task is easy, rubber banding makes it more challenging by asking the learner to do or learn it faster, with a higher quality level, or even training someone else on it.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate progress.\u00a0 Giving and getting immediate feedback, through quizzes or other ways, reinforces learning and actually helps people learn more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Surprise<\/strong><br \/>\nThe element of surprise actually plays a role in stimulating learning.\u00a0 Changing the flow every 20 minutes is one technique, as well as actual surprises either related to the content or even a side-activity like sharing photographs or other \u2018surprises\u2019 to the learner.<br \/>\nWhat we know now is that incorporating the elements of gaming into both learning and work environment improves learning and productivity, Crabtree concluded.\u00a0 And what the field of lifelong learning will want to figure out next is the extent to which educational gaming is our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of lifelong learning may very well be educational gaming. 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