1. Jen Deyenberg
Northern Gateway Public Schools
earning
ased
ames
Photo by WVS

2. What
If?

3. What if there were a tool that guided you
through challenges and quests at your own
pace?
Photo by Ross LaRocco

4. What if the tool assessed
how you were doing and
didn’t let you progress
until you have sufficient
tools, skills, and
preparation to go on?
Photo by @_levelcomplete

5. http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/
Online Games
http://villainyinc.thinkport.org/
http://www.mangahigh.com

6. What if the tool provided a safe environment for
you to fail in, but encouraged and motivated you
to keep trying?

7. What if the tool was full of rich
narrative driven content?
http://layton.wikia.com

8. What if there were puzzles and challenges that
played to the most critical thinking and problem
solving skills?

9. Nintendo DS

10. What if the tool had characters that
drew you in and inspired you to
create, wonder, and play?

11. Scribblenauts

13. What if the tool allowed
learners with disabilities to
run, jump and be whatever
they want to be?
“I believe that there is nothing more
powerful for people with disabilities that the
freedom that only videogames can provide.
It is an art form that allows us to all run,
jump, and be whatever we want to be.”
-Mark Barlet, AbleGamers Foundation

16. What if you were
rewarded
automatically for
progress and
success?
blogs.dailymail.com

17. Games Based Learning vs.
Gamification
Images from
http://www.dashe.com
and yoshiart.com

18. What if the tool could simulate things
that weren’t possible?
http://dome.fi

20. What if there was rich, descriptive text, with
more words than most novels, which you were
eager to read to keep progressing?

21. http://www.nfb.ca/interactive/

22. What if there was beautiful art, rich texture,
colour, and pattern to inspire your own
creations?
http://lumoreanarts.deviantart.com

23. What if you
absolutely
loved the
tool, and
played with
it every
chance with
you got?

24. Wii Bowling
Strike = 10+n+y

25. What if the tool were available in many
platforms, portable, accessible, affordable,
already in many homes, and had more choices
of content than you could ever imagine?
http://www.gamehavenclassic.com/

26. Favourite Wii Games

27. What if you could develop your own challenges
and share them with others around the world?

28. Daisy
Scratch
http://research.microsoft.com
/en-us/projects/kodu/
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Hopscotch
http://goo.gl/7jjpE
Kodable
http://goo.gl/CFuAB
Unity
http://unity3d.com/
Kodu
Move the Turtle
http://goo.gl/PVhGO
http://goo.gl/Sdvt9
App Development:
http://www.trailsoptional.com/2012/04/so-you-want-tocreate-an-app/

29. Construct 2
Alice
http://www.scirra.com/construct2
http://www.alice.org/
http://gamesalad.com/
http://gamestarmechanic.com/
http://appinventor.mit.edu/
Greenfoot
http://www.greenfoot.org/
http://udk.com/

30. What if you could create new levels, characters,
worlds, and write all about your experiences,
create stories about these new worlds, and
write how to guides to help others?

31. What if the tool taught
social issues?
http://www.gamesforchange.org/
https://www.tigweb.org/games/

32. What if you could share and create in
online worlds connecting with others?

33. Eden

34. What if we brought it
into the classroom?
I wonder…

35. Research
http://prezi.com/fabxd10aqxxl/games-basedlearning/
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/132980