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Fun & Frustration Learning & Games Drew Davidson

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Page 1: Fun and Frustration = Learning and Games

Fun & Frustration

Learning & Games

Drew Davidson

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Fun & Frustration

Games aren’t just Fun

Fun has a Half-Life

Pleasantly Frustrating

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Flow & Failure

Challenge & Reward

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On Game Design

Interest Curves

Procedural

Interactivity

Gamepocalypse

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Interest Curves

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Procedural

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Interactivity

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Gamepocalypse

Gamification

Funware

MSG

Secret Sauce

Make it Seem Game-like

Gameful

Spirit of Games

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On Learning

Failure

Doubt

Curiosity

Articulations

Ecologies

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Failure

Fail Faster

Experiment, Explore

Rapid Prototyping

Iterate toward Solutions

Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.

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Doubt

Question Answers

Challenge Assumptions

Work to Understand

To be Uncertain isto be Uncomfortable, but to be Certain isto be Ridiculous.

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Curiosity

Ask Questions & Engage

Lifelong Learning & How Stuff Works

Problem Solving & Cheating?

Story Telling & Model Making

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Articulations

Systemic

Connections

Associations

Relationships

Transference

Interdisciplinary

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Ecologies

Learning

Overlapping

Evolving

Interrelating

Connecting

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Learning & Games

Creation

Distribution

Assessment

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

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Creation

Collaborative

Multi-Media

User Generated

Remix

IP

Design

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Distribution

More Channels

Aggregation

Collation & Curation

On Demand

Digital

Tagging & Rating

Search

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Assessment

Community

Real-Time

Data Visualization

Constructive

Systemic

Qualitative

Literacy

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WorkingExamples.org

Process and Progress

Visualize Connections

Design Decisions

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Fun & Frustration = Learning &

Games

Either/Or – Both/And

Flow & Explore

Challenge & Reward

Agency & Literacy

Playing is Learning

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On Games & Learning

Beyond Fun

Serious Games and Media

Well Played

Video Games, Value and Meaning

http://etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/

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Thanks!

Questions?

[email protected]