Jacqueline Urick discusses using gaming and gamification to develop skills for future careers. She argues that if future careers will require technical skills and technology changes rapidly, individuals need to develop attributes like intelligence, wisdom, strength and constitution, as well as skills like input, ideation and strategy. She proposes a system of "questing" by taking classes, building things, reading and more to level up these attributes and skills in an engaging game-like framework. The goal is to develop into an "Awesome You" ready for the future of work.
2. About Jacque
• Co-founder & CEO SieEnt, LLC
• Managing Director, Girls in Tech Minneapolis / St. Paul
• Board Member, IGDA Twin Cities
3. About Jacque
• Co-founder & CEO SieEnt, LLC
• Managing Director, Girls in Tech Minneapolis / St. Paul
• Board Member, IGDA Twin Cities
4.
5. Technology is the usage and
knowledge of tools, techniques,
crafts, systems or methods of
organization in order to solve a
problem or serve some purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
6. PROTIP:
“What we observe is not nature
itself,
but nature exposed to our
method of questioning.”
– Werner Heisenberg
21. Quest!!
• Take a class • Build something
• Sketch your • Put on a show
environment • Watch a live
• Read an article performance
• Read a book • Write a story
• Listen to music • Play a game
• Etc…
22. PROTIP:
Questing
is doing things with
PURPOSE.
23. Level Up!
• Reflect on failure • Revisit your skills and
(failure isn’t bad!) attributes
• Improve with each cycle • Leave your comfort
zone on your next set of
quests
24. Character
Creation
Tools
Level Repeat Until
Recruit
Up! “Max Level”
Quest
Max Level
25. Result: Awesome You
Level 11ty Billion Mass Effect 2 is property of Electronic Arts
26. PROTIP:
“If you want to be a game developer, be a
game developer. Don’t WANT to be a
game developer, don’t PLAN to be a game
developer, don’t WISH to be one. Go
make a game.” - Jon Comes
27. PROTIP:
“If you want to be a __________, be a
__________. Don’t WANT to be a
__________, don’t PLAN to be a
__________, don’t WISH to be one.
Go do it!”