This presentation, adapted from previous games and learning presentations, was presented to the Topsail Elementary PTA, January 2012

1. Game On!
Learning and Video Games

2. Lucas Gillispie
@PCSTech
This is me!
This is one of my
virtual “me’s”

3. What I do...
I work with teachers to help them integrate technology in
the classroom to spark a passion for learning in
kids.

4. Play

5. Remember
the

6. Is he

7. Flow
An optimal state
of intrinsic
motivation, where
a person is fully
immersed in what
he or she is
doing.
ntmi hályi
l y Cs iksze
Mihá

8. “It is paradoxical that many
educators and parents still
differentiate between a time for
learning and a time for play without
seeing the vital connection
between them.”
Leo F. Buscaglia,

9. “The opposite of work is
not play, it’s
-Dr. Stuart Brown
National Institute for

10. This is
what
engageme

11. Are they
learning?

12. This is what
school
sometimes
looks like.

13. Are they
learning

14. Video

15. The average age
of a game
player

16. The average age
of a game
player
3

17. The percentage of
women who are
video

18. The percentage of
women who are
video
42%

19. What % of all gamers?

20. 13%
What % of all gamers?

21. 13%
37%
What % of all gamers?

22. Videos Game
sales

23. Videos Game
sales
$25.1

24. Videos Game
sales
$25.1
2010 Book
Sales: $11.6
billion

25. Videos Game
sales
$25.1
2010 Book 2010 Movie
Sales: $11.6 Ticket Sales:
billion $10.5 billion

26. $1.8 billion in 2011

27. Between 5th grade and
graduation,
students will spend 10,080

28. The average young person will
spend 10,000 hours, by the time
they’re 21, playing video games.
Jane McGonigal, Institute for
the Future

29. A Parallel

32. “...the designers of
many good games
have hit on
profoundly good
methods of getting
people to learn
and to enjoy
-James Paul Gee,
University of Madison
Wisconsin

33. Learning works best when
new challenges are
“pleasantly frustrating” in
the sense of being felt by
learners to be at the outer
edge of, but within their
“regime of competence”.
That is, these challenges
feel hard, but doable.
(Gee, 2007, p. 36).

34. How Do Games Teach?
•Social Interaction (Collaborative Learning)
•Customized Experiences (Differentiation/Learner
Control)
•Achievement (Mastery Learning)
•Relevance (Contextual Learning)
•Multimedia (Multiple Intelligences)

35. “Today's game designers have figured out
something today's educators are still
searching for: how to make learning
engaging for today's kids. It would be a
shame not to employ this knowledge in our
classrooms.”

36. 7 Tips For Parents
From An Educator/

37. #1 Read what the experts are

38. #2 Talk to your kids about
what

39. #3 Ask your children to teach you
how to play the games they play.

40. #4 Pick up a new game and

41. #5 Put on your learning

42. #6 Balance.

43. #7 Remember how to

44. Games at Topsail
Elementary? Yes!

45. Building A World of Their Own In
Minecraft

50. More Edu-
Gaming

51. A story about a

52. Questions

53. www.edurealms.co

54. Photo Credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benmcleod/213005390/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/divinedecay/4732129949/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superhua/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/authors/stuart-brown.jpg?0
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Leo_Buscaglia,_1987.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mommylicious/4445019534/
http://www.jamespreller.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/best-games-never-made-6.jpg
http://ps3.mmgn.com/Lib/Images/News/Normal/Male-gamers-less-likely-to-take-drugs-do-better-at-
school-1061071.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrdrck/4515090284/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zizzy/89581233/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trojanguy/3402405468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takeda/3786428050/
http://www.pandorajewelrydenver.com/_product_73690/Spectacular_Cat_Eye_Spectacles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinlukk/110883674/
http://icoblog.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyweber/4962298166/