Games in education – some key trends and initiatives in Europe

Games in educat ion – some key
t rends and ini t iat ives in Europe
Jef f rey Earp
Inst i tute for Educat ional Technology
I tal ian Research Counci l
keynote address @ Edupolicies Conference, Athens 26-28 Sept. 2014

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Edupolicies Conference – Athens, Sept. 2014

collaborative game making
21st century skills
game design
serious games
game based learning
training
pedagogy
education
design patterns
innovat ive pract ice
innovat ion
empi r ical research
Ini t ial Teacher Educat ion
inclusion
universal design
SEN
educat ional sof tware
teacher t raining
teacher competencies
Knowledge Society
teacher educat ion
open educat ional resources
knowledge shar ing
professional development
cur r iculum ICT
resource design
shar ing & reuse
resource catalogues
technology enhanced
learning
educational technology

invest igat ing
pi lot ing
implement ing
val idat ing
suppor t ing
informing . . .
educational policy

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educat ional innovat ion
in Europe -
the creat ive classroom
http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/eLearningPresentations.html

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ideas
practice
policy

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games in education -
some trends & initiatives
US survey of 700
teachers in
2013/14

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Games and Learning
Publishing Council - USA
2013/14 survey of 700
teachers
75% use digital games
for teaching

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well-ordered problems connecting play & learning
good tools “cycle of expertise”
clear goals narrative immersion
safe failure multiple learning paths
learn by doing learning transfer
feedback & assessment design thinking
“Teaching as Designing”
GBL principles - James Paul Gee, 2011
Edupolicies Conference – Athens 2014

key competencies - EU
1) communicat ion in the mother tongue
2) communicat ion in foreign languages
3) competences in maths, science and technology
4) digi tal competence
5) learning to learn
6) interpersonal , intercul tural and social competences,
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and civic competences
7) ent repreneurship
8) cul tural expression

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games in education -
some trends & initiatives
Game Based Learning
Ser ious Games
Gami f icat ion
Game Making

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Game Based Learning
“ i n t e g r a t i o n o f g ame s ( o r g ami n g
mechanics) into educat ional exper iences to
suppor t learning"
. . . of cur r iculum contents and . . .
"sof t ski l ls ( l ike) col laborat ion, problem
solving, communicat ion, cr i t ical thinking,
a n d d i g i t a l l i t e r a c y . ”
Horizon Report 2012 K-12

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some digital game types
• Commercial of f - the-shel f games - The Sims
• Massively Mul t iplayer Onl ine Role -playing Games (MMORPGs) -
Wor ld of Warcraf t
• Ser ious Games/Educat ional games - STEM/humani t ies games
• sandbox games - Minecraf t (Edu)
• pervasive / Al ternate Real i ty Games - ARG
• game author ing envi ronments - Scratch, Magos
08/03/2014

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key teacher concerns
• Place & space in the cur r iculum
• Assessment
• Planning & organisat ion
o what game/s
o access to and management of digi tal
envi ronment
o design of teaching uni t
o managing act ivi t ies - in/out of class,
school/home
08/03/2014

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GEL
GEL key questions

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Ser ious Games
games designed for
purposes other than
enter tainment
SGS

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Gami f icat ion
appl icat ion of game mechanics &
mechanisms to non-game contexts
to enhance engagement / learning
eSG

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ent repreneurship in
Europe's schools

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educat ional game making
design and product ion
of digi tal games
to suppor t learning
. . . of cur r iculum contents and . . .
21st century ski l ls: col laborat ion, problem
solving, communicat ion,
cr i t ical thinking, digi tal l i teracy

digi tal maker movement
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makes i t
wi th I taly's pol icy makers!

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MAGICAL snapshot
What? game making for learning and transversal skills
When? 1 Jan. 2012 – 01 Oct. 2014 (33 months)
How? EU Longlife Learning Progamme KA3 (ICT)
Who? Institute for Education Technology, CNR (IT)
Tampere University of Technology - TUT (FI)
Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE)
+ specially commissioned institution - GAPMET (GR)

Main project objectives
• Investigate collaborative game making as a
student-centred, hands-on approach to learning
• Examine support for 21st C. skills: collaboration,
problem-solving, creativity, ICT literacy
• Implement game-making environments & activities
• Support broader uptake of collaborative game
making in education

Target populations
• Primary school students
• Student teachers
• In-service teachers
• Staff dealing with special needs (SEN)

Core outputs
• Magos (Lite & Classic ) game making-platform
• Library of game making environments
• Pedagogical planning tool
• Set of reusable pedagogical plans
• Set of ready to use games
• Guide for classroom practice
• Toolkit for teacher/educator training courses

MAGOS Lite
game-making environment
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Magos Lite Edupolicies Conference – Athens 2014

Library of Game Making Environments
for Learners
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http://amc.pori.tut.fi/game-building-tools/

Pedagogical planner for GBL
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http://www.magical.itd.cnr.it/

MAGICAL website http://www.magical-project.net/
MAGOS platform http://magos.pori.tut.fi/
Pedagogical Planner http://www.magical.itd.cnr.it/
Library of Game Making Environments
for Learners
http://amc.pori.tut.fi/game-building-tools
MAGICAL bibliography on Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/groups/19323
91/magical-collaborative-game-design-for-
learning/
Scoop.It! curated game making feed http://www.scoop.it/t/game-making-and-
learning
my email jeff@itd.cnr.it
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Thank you!
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Jeffrey Earp
Game Making & Learning
on Scoop.It

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