Comments on: A game? Who says? https://blog.learnlets.com/2012/07/a-game-who-says/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Virginia Yonkers https://blog.learnlets.com/2012/07/a-game-who-says/#comment-170778 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:15:59 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=2795#comment-170778 You bring up a very good point. “Games” to a certain extent are in the eye of the beholder. If your target group does not perceive it as a game, then it isn’t. Likewise, I’ve had course activities that I did not perceive of as a “game”, but my students continually refer to as a game. Part of the problem is that we have been programmed to think that learning can’t come out of a game (because it is fun). As a result, my students don’t feel they have learned from the activity because it was fun. Likewise, a game that is not fun, is not really a game, but a “learning activity.” Students will stick with it if they believe they need to in order to learn.

I think we need to allow learning to be fun, make students aware of the fact that they can “learn” even when something appears easy, and add a learning component outside of the game so students connect the game to what we want them to learn.

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