Good Advice: Five Things I Didn’t Get About Making Video Games (Until I Did It)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis was posted back in February, but it’s worth sharing. Five Things I Didn’t Get About Making Video Games (Until I Did It). 1. Making games is a thousand times harder than I thought 2. Games look like complete ass … Continue reading

2015 IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media (GEM) Conference

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteIEEE-GEM.ORG. There’s still time to submit your proposals. The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is pleased to announce the 2015 IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media (GEM) Conference, the seventh conference in a series of successful IEEE Game Innovation Conferences. The venue … Continue reading

A Few Game Creation Resources

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m putting these here, so I’ll be able to find them again. Create Games with Construct 2 – Scirra.com  An HTML 5 Game creator. I haven’t tried it myself so can’t comment on how good it is. Looks interesting though. … Continue reading

Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification – My Version

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn response to the other day’s post about the differences between these terms, I have produced my own table outlining the differences. You’ll notice mine is a little more complex. That’s because the differences are more complex than the original … Continue reading

Worth repeating: Mythical Retention Data & The Corrupted Cone

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWill at Work Learning: Mythical Retention Data & The Corrupted Cone. Thank you Will Thalheimer for taking the time to pull this all together. This is one of those trite myths that is so popular but that actually has the potential … Continue reading

Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesSo many people are confused about the differences between these terms. Unfortunately, this article just muddies the waters further.

Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification | The Upside Learning Blog.

It’s a great effort, but I’m afraid none of these are quite right.

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Walking the Talk : Signature Pedagogies and Metateaching in Graduate-Level Education Courses

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s another fairly recent talk, also from CNIE 2014. [P] Presentation Becker, K. (2014) Walking the Talk : Signature Pedagogies and Metateaching in Graduate-Level Education Courses, CNIE 2014 Confluences: Spaces, Places & Cultures for Innovative Learning, Kamloops, BC, May 13-16, … Continue reading

The Virtue of Failure – Designing Games You Can’t Win for Learning

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThought I should upload a few of my more recent talks. This one is from the CNIE conference in May 2014 that I did with Dana Ruggiero. [P] Presentation Ruggiero, D. & Becker, K. (2014) The Virtue of Failure: Designing … Continue reading