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The power of real timeDean Groom - ASLA Conference 2011

@vormamim

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Please turn ON all mobile phones,

laptops and other mobile devices!


The internet is shaped by

whoever controls the media, controls the culture


Where is this culture thriving? ...


Among people willing explore new cultures ...


By people learning from experiences


to:


Education generallyresponded to this

innovation bybuilding equitybarricades for

even the simplesttoolsets.

These is not normal, but

cultural phantoms.


kids websites music reference web2.0 bookmarks social

http://www.ebizmba.com/ (Oct 2011)Most Popular Websites


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Top 10 Websites by Unique VisitorsHow many people use these more than once?


media is the link between those we

follow and those who willingly follow us.

It emerges from culture not strategy.

Learn to craft it everywhere.


Words that target boys.


Words that target girls.


Take media out of schools and into the community


Meanwhile, media is free to positsophisticated messages to unarmed

parents and children wholack weapons of critical analysis


media literacy should fight for the ability to access, adapt, and

create knowledge using ICT technologies critical to a

socially inclusive culture.


Media Technology sees us and how we respond.


Google will be activating 1 millionAndroid smart phones a day in October.

Camera, video, web, social networks, search, geo-location, always connected.


Media Literacy shouldn’t be aboutmaintaining lines of separation

between content and experience.


Why Web2.0 isn’t goingto save the princess.

(you’re looking in the wrong castles)


Media is a culture engine


Web2.0 is only part of the picture.


This isn’t enough.

A completeMedia Literacy

means teachingfrom the centre of

the metaverse.

Where do youlike to hang out?


“Life is trying things to see if they work.”

Creativity is something to learn, not to avoid.


Discovery

Experience

Exploration

Are my peers fans of this?Will I look cool if I’m a fan?

Am I coolest if I am the first?

Is it best consumed with peers?Is it best created with peers?

What do my peers think?Who can I connect to?

Who can explore with me?

What’s this?Should I risk it?

Will I like it?

I’m in!I see the point!I’m succeeding!

I feel alone.I want more of this.

I want to help others.

How the engine works (iteratively)

Event

Knowledge

Personal Social

BREAK POINT

BREAK POINT BREAK POINT

BREAK POINT


Discovery

Experience

Exploration

Are my peers fans of this?Will I look cool if I’m a fan?

Am I coolest if I am the first?

Is it best consumed with peers?Is it best created with peers?

What do my peers think?Who can I connect to?

Who can explore with me?

What’s this?Should I risk it?

Will I like it?

I’m in!I see the point!I’m succeeding!

I feel alone.I want more of this.

I want to help others.

Event

Knowledge

Personal Social

Google It

Tweet It!

Peer-Influence

Peer-Reputation

TWEET IT MORE! Peer-Support

How the engine works with or fails


Relevance

Personalisation

Reputation

MediaThings

PeopleExperiences

Prior Knowledge

Interest

utilityease of use

convenienceimmediacy

success

Persistence

Attention

Knowledge

Adaptation

Connections

ChoiceIgnore Change

Individual media literacy is driven by ...

Device

App

Opportunity


Towards including Games as a Media Literacy

• Teaching THROUGH: Use games to teach a specific curriculum.

• Teaching WITH: Use games to leverage existing themes, concepts and methods from the curriculum though play.

• Teaching by MAKING: Game authoring tools to make games about given subject, relevant contents to learn using story telling and ludic processes.

story audience

pedagogy platforms


Games are a media, just like film, web, TV

or books.

(and a viable growing industry

for kids to work in).


Moshi Monsters [dot] comWednesday, 5 October 2011

content --- task-rules --- task activity --- outcome

Outcome Based Learning Instructionist (Tolman, 1932)

Student as consumer, focus on content, throughput, quality of student on exit

Kids are learning in multiple cultural domains





story --- game-rules --- game play --- experience

Game Based Learning Conjectural (Kolb, 1984)

students as producer, collaborator, focus on output






story --- game-rules --- game play --- experience

Game Based Learning Conjectural (Kolb, 1984)

students as producer, collaborator, focus on output

Problem Based Learningenquiry --- discovery --- experience --- product

Revelatory (Bruner, 1973)

students as explorer, team worker, focus on discovery



The Massively Minecraft Project

An experiential learning community

www.minecraft.net minecraft.jokaydia.comWednesday, 5 October 2011

http://www.minecraft.net

http://www.minecraft.net

http://www.minecraft.jokaydia.com

http://www.minecraft.jokaydia.com

MassivelyMinecraft.org (some details)

• Open for just over 5 months, 40 players

• Experiential Learning Environment (Kolb, Gee, Prensky, Brown etc).

• Parents, Teachers and Children - Youngest player 5. 40% girls.

• No lessons or ‘teaching’ allowed from the adults

• Secure (very modified) server, running off ‘OpenSim’ server hosting.

• Uses Races, Classes and Guild Achievement methods to ‘level’ up.

• Most popular times. Mon-Friday - 6am to 7.30am, 3pm-7.30pm AEST

• Weekends are getting to 24/7 occupancy

• Players from the US and Australia

• Is a social-enterprise, no costs to players.


ExperienceGame-Rules Reputation

Goal

Game-Play

Peer ReviewedSelf Assessment

Game-Theory & Methods.


Narratives

Innovation

Processes

Community Discussion

Reputation

Not a LMS.


Shifts in media literacyhinge upon technological

advancement

Enacted though cultures


The Abbey (UK History Homework)


Titanic (US Social Studies Homework)


Fender Strat. (UNE) ... and some 8 year olds


Massively Minecraft Learning Cycles

YouTube

In-Game

Guild Site

In-GameSkype

In Game

Skype

School-yard

@Notch

MinecraftMondays

MinecraftWiki

Forums

Building

Writing

Collaborating

Modding

Machinima

Skype

Sharing

conferences Open Days

ModeratingGoogling

Maths

Social

after Kolb (1984)

tutorials

tutorials


A complete approach to media

literacy is to arm teachers,

parents and students with

opportunities to promote

understanding in a socially

inclusive culture of innovation.

"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."

@vormamimwww.massivelyproductive.comwww.massivelyminecraft.org

Games Based LearningProject Based LearningVirtual Worlds & Games

Recommended Reading

Start Here (1985) ...http://thcnet.net/zork/


http://www.massivelyproductive.com

http://www.massivelyproductive.com

http://www.massivelyminecraft.org

http://www.massivelyminecraft.org

http://thcnet.net/zork/

http://thcnet.net/zork/

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