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Game Based L earning for Information Literacy Instruction.

Game Based L earning for Information Literacy Instruction. Andrew Walsh, Academic Librarian / Teaching Fellow Twitter - andywalsh999 http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/. ECIL, 2013. What is play?.

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Game Based L earning for Information Literacy Instruction.

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  1. Game Based Learning for Information Literacy Instruction. Andrew Walsh, Academic Librarian / Teaching Fellow Twitter - andywalsh999 http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/ ECIL, 2013.

  2. What is play? "Summing up the formal characteristic of play, we might call it a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary' life as being 'not serious' but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner. It promotes the formation of social groupings that tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress the difference from the common world by disguise or other means.“ Huizinga (1955) Homo Ludens play is Apparently Purposeless (done for its own sake); Voluntary; has Inherent Attraction; Freedom from time; Diminished consciousness of self; Improvisational potential; and Continuation desire. Brown & Vaughan (2010) Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul.

  3. What are games? Play with rules? “All games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.” McGonigal (2012) Reality is broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world.

  4. What is Gamification? ‘The application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.’ (OED definition)

  5. Why use games for learning libraries? https://libwebspace.library.cmu.edu:4430/libraries-and-collections/Libraries/etc/game2/game2.swf

  6. Engagement

  7. Deeper / ‘Better’ Learning • Enable Reflection • Practice Skills • Make Connections Background Image from TeemuYlikoskion Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ylikoski/

  8. Fun? • . Promotion, variety, promotion, FUN!

  9. How can you introduce play / games?

  10. Generating ideas & prototypes http://gamesforlibraries.blogspot.co.uk/

  11. Examples of library games

  12. Thanks for listening… More stuff from me at: http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/ • As well as my books---> • Download SEEK! • http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/15377/ • Making Games for Libraries Workshops • http://gamesforlibraries.blogspot.co.uk/ I’m at a.p.walsh@hud.ac.ukor @andywalsh999 on Twitter

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