0:00:00row when you're playing again there's is natural inclination is become better just are engaging
0:00:05in the world and you know part of that is simply to recruit other people
0:00:09to game right so you're playing something i civilisation is a way to which you
0:00:13need to have other players the kind of push understanding sure strategy same thing in
0:00:17gilder multiple
0:00:18what i'm most interested in those this idea that when you play through again world
0:00:22let's say that you're playing is a role playing game in your character whose shape
0:00:25this entire were we are starting to see some evidence of players after playing games
0:00:29like this will start to kinda put on a computer look outside several wire things
0:00:33the way they are
0:00:33why is the economic system of the local system the way it is if you
0:00:36dumplings so what we want to do with educational games are designed games that try
0:00:41to do that but really build them around critical kind of current issues
0:00:46and then the kids to be motivated have the scales to allow to start to
0:00:49solve these problems present results have a i o
0:00:59i study video games and learning and i'm particularly interested in how video games function
0:01:03is learning environments how game cultures around them function and then can we design learning
0:01:08environments based on the side so partly what we try to do is design
0:01:12james for learning but then also designed cultural organisations around so a lot of this
0:01:17is more than just taken games are trying to stick "'em" saying the schools really
0:01:20the fundamentally rethink how we do education
0:01:28and one thing about things that really good they're really good at taking a complex
0:01:35sort of subject area and then and then giving you put into it so that
0:01:39you find intriguing may be seen also
0:01:42and then it the really good at drawing people in so they become engaged in
0:01:45involve right they're very much and are the to the next the games do that's
0:01:51really interesting is that the actually build scale like
0:01:54like you have to be good at people who play games develop a pattern detection
0:01:57skills they develop problem solving skills you don't get very far and again if you
0:02:02just think about doing one sort of solution you gotta kinda step back when you
0:02:05reach problems
0:02:06look at what is the most ideal kind of solution and then given what your
0:02:09skills are what is the best way
0:02:19in online spaces are really having the opportunity to take on at all kinds of
0:02:25rules in into a lot of complex sort of information management you know if you
0:02:29haven't ever tried organiser a try to get hundred people from all over the world
0:02:33to show about the same time on time to be prepare
0:02:36to have all the things they need to not mess up the group just a
0:02:40discipline it's a really complex kind of it
0:02:42and there are thirteen fourteen your kids around the world for doing that right means
0:02:52you have the capacity to do all these kind
0:02:53these kinds of things right so you can get involved this the old and help
0:02:56write the charter and kind of you know develop the rules and schools unfortunately we
0:03:00still have almost all of that on either the teacher or increasingly the federal government
0:03:04right
0:03:05we don't say that is kids like our let's build their own constitution let's build
0:03:08a charter let's come up with their rules you know kids generally aren't running the
0:03:12school board you know it's a then that's of to happen games right kids are
0:03:16literally they're getting to participate shaping our own source of features six shaping the social
0:03:20feature of the organisation and are having a chance to do
0:03:32i think the mean most interesting is when you see spaces that are cross generational
0:03:35right so if you actually see guilds where you have kids doing that but then
0:03:39there's also run upstairs and our society is really bad about interpretation right now we
0:03:44think we have to say you know all the ninth graders and you know we're
0:03:47not even ninth and tenth graders
0:03:50we unfortunately for learning physics there's one physics teacher and you know thirty kids what's
0:03:54great about games is that they're all these matching of people different abilities different interests
0:03:58all working together and it's kinda ad hoc way without learning happens everywhere except for
0:04:02school that's how learning is always happened for nineteen hundred it's how learning will probably
0:04:07happened you know from here on out
0:04:20one possible thing what games and civic engagement they think it's
0:04:23thus two things have left and i think it have less to do with one
0:04:26another in video games it's of engagement what actually there seems to be a small
0:04:30but important relationship between a and i think it's educators we can leverage what games
0:04:34do end really foster civic engagement
0:04:42we've again for example to distance i
0:04:44and this is a game where your role playing is an average citizen takes place
0:04:47here in madison and what you do in the games that you come to learn
0:04:51that the lakes in this area are very endangered which and in fact they are
0:04:53they may become you traffic in a few years the point you can swim minimal
0:04:57in so what you do in the game is that you're a kid who goes
0:05:01through a series of quests understand what's happening to like in and
0:05:04if you go through a right you actually change the way can change the feature
0:05:07now our hope is that you played again you put it down you say
0:05:10well why don't we do something about it so we basically taught you how to
0:05:13do everything you're gonna need to do to change the like without you what the
0:05:16root causes are how the science works we have to talk to get legislation passed
0:05:20and so what we're hoping is that by d and will have a massive students
0:05:24who are interest in the topic they feel empowered they have the skills and then
0:05:28are actually motivated go do something
0:05:36something that we can see happening here that's really interesting is that a lot of
0:05:39the media messaging and the organisation is being taken up of course you know by
0:05:43kids and are using media to do it things like twitter and because the social
0:05:48events in protest and row is that are happening here have largely been driven by
0:05:52grassroots it's a large been drivers between media
0:05:55the mainstream media is not covering it so we have the largest rally in history
0:05:58was constant last weekend hand best fox news had one can see in and how
0:06:02to wave about ten seconds right and ask people are realising that okay the corporate
0:06:06own mass media is not going to get a message out we need other ways
0:06:10to do it
0:06:12see i
0:06:16have to see something to say
0:06:20most importantly i
0:06:22these are your
0:06:29we see things like mobilisation in using to what i'm you see people sharing have
0:06:35producing videos in sharing the is to get their message out that sort of instinct
0:06:38to do that i think comes apart from growing up with participatory media like games
0:06:42but now a generation of kids actually has many these skills and so they're starting
0:06:46to do it they're starting to kind of
0:06:48fill that void where other media aren't stepping up
0:06:54a group of our students watched a website because i realise that information was really
0:06:58hearts again and it was not freely available in the capital so they large the
0:07:02website overnight that let you know where the process were happening what was needed anyone
0:07:06could pose to it
0:07:08it was feature nonseen and by the next day and of course think that capital
0:07:11had restricted access to it because it was deemed to be perhaps a controversial and
0:07:15this is something that as a gamer people can actually do they look in a
0:07:17see well what where are the weak spots what we need to fix and they
0:07:21are inclined to kind of jump in and of either skills to try to get
0:07:25something
0:07:30well let's goes or really related to design really good players the planks i really
0:07:34have to form teams for example right so we have to design their own team
0:07:37that designer kind of team rules are that they killed at the right a charter
0:07:40to build a website they have to recruit people so they're designing their own sort
0:07:44of social system
0:07:45now the skills that don't win so that involve a lot of thing so one
0:07:48is information gathering information management so when you're doing this kind of gaining you're having
0:07:53to model a lot of information streams choose which ones you think are relevant and
0:07:57then make decisions suited to manage your own information flow coming in so if you're
0:08:01playing something what warcraft
0:08:02having to customise your interface to get the information that you need to do better
0:08:06is a fundamental scale happens or something like starcraft as well it's very similar to
0:08:10doing so that participation the sense of what kind of information my getting where can
0:08:13i get more why don't i know what or other if you're have a strong
0:08:17feeling on one side of an issue
0:08:19do you know enough about what the other side is doing do you know enough
0:08:22about kind of what's happening from different information source
0:08:25that's part of i think what games are a subject she piece of what we
0:08:28call participants were in the idea that you are actually shaping the content shaping experience
0:08:33helping shape the world