{"id":5880,"date":"2015-10-06T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2015-10-06T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:45:53","slug":"worth-sharing-doing-educational-gaming-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/06\/worth-sharing-doing-educational-gaming-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Doing Educational Gaming Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/tay.kinja.com\/doing-educational-gaming-right-1721023620\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1363115701793022379.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of playing Upper One Games\u2019 Never Alone, or Kisima Injitchuna. It was a relatively simple puzzle-platformer game that on the merits of gameplay doesn\u2019t do anything too drastic from the norm. However, what the game did do incredibly well was teach me something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tay.kinja.com\/doing-educational-gaming-right-1721023620\">Doing Educational Gaming Right<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5880'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5880);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5880);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5880);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of playing Upper One Games\u2019 Never Alone, or Kisima Injitchuna. It was a relatively simple puzzle-platformer game that on the merits of gameplay doesn\u2019t do anything too drastic from the norm. However, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/06\/worth-sharing-doing-educational-gaming-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,379,12,396,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-game-design","category-games","category-serious-games","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1wQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7080,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/10\/12\/serious-games-and-the-role-of-gaming-beyond-entertainment-calgary-journal-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":5880,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Serious&#8221; games and the role of gaming beyond entertainment &#8211; Calgary Journal Online","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jasper McGregor | jmcgregor@cjournal.ca Oct 11, 2018 Video games are changing as rapidly as our reliance on them, serving functions that go well beyond entertainment and escapism. Just ask Katrin Becker, a Calgary-based expert on \"serious games,\" or games created to serve a purpose larger than simple recreation. From\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VRHEADTHUMB.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VRHEADTHUMB.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VRHEADTHUMB.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VRHEADTHUMB.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5313,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/17\/is-it-appropriate-to-make-educational-games-for-girls\/","url_meta":{"origin":5880,"position":1},"title":"Is it appropriate to make educational games for girls?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t like fighting. As a result, there are a whole pile of video games that I don\u2019t really like playing. I\u2019ve always thought of shooters and fighting games as the low-hanging fruit of game design. It\u2019s fairly easy to do. When I watched Avatar for the first time I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"CT06","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CT06-300x137.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5268,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/08\/4peg-review-gambling-never-pays-magic-bullet-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":5880,"position":2},"title":"4PEG Review: Gambling Never Pays [Magic Bullet Games]","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A number of chapters in my upcoming book talk about how to review games, and I go into my 4PEG model in detail. I review 7 games in the book. Here's another. This review is of an educational game, and I examine level 4 of the e-Bug Detective Game. 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Everyone seemed to think that the way to make \"learning fun\" was to wrap it up in some lame game. Educational Technologists and other educational designers leapt on this bandwagon with great glee.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4871,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/26\/analyzing-games-for-learning-the-becker-lazy-test\/","url_meta":{"origin":5880,"position":4},"title":"Analyzing Games for Learning The Becker Lazy Test","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Becker\u2019s Lazy Test is something I developed some years ago as part of the 4PEG game assessment template (4PEG = 4 Pillars of Educational Games). When I am examining a game, I play it and see how far I can get without reading or learning anything. I simply follow the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mediabookblogid-100283345.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":959,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/07\/22\/in-depth-game-reviews-mathblaster\/","url_meta":{"origin":5880,"position":5},"title":"In-Depth Game Reviews: Mathblaster","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was working on my PhD (2003-2008), I found it very hard to find any decent reviews of educational games. There are plenty of reasons for this, including: Teachers aren't, for the most part, gamers and so really have no idea what makes a good game. 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