Jim Gee Principles on Gaming

[@kanmuri1701]

0:32 Three Categories Introduction First Category: Empowered Learner 2:01 Agent/Co-Design 3:10 Customization 4:24 Identity 5:36 Manipulation 7:00 Second Category: Problem Based Learning 8:10 Well-Ordered Problems 9:31 Pleasantly Frustrating 10:41 The Cycle of Expertise 12:27 Information: Just In Time and On Demand 13:59 Fish Tank 15:16 Sandboxes 16:35 Skills Under Strategies Third Category: Deep Understanding 17:50 System Thinking 19:41 Situated Meaning / Meaning as Action and Image 21:29 Conclusion

[@WinnerMin17]

Thanks 💜

[@sakinahismael3727]

Thank you so much for this!

[@marisagomez2214]

Muchas gracias !!!

[@kanmuri1701]

you are all welcome! Glad that it helps! 😄

[@aleksanderaasen3169]

@@kanmuri1701 you're a hero

[@emmaheroe]

I had this incredible experience organizing the last Global Game Jam in my city. There were 10 kids that had less than 13 years old, at the same time, the rest of the participants were over 21 with experience. This kids, come only with curiosity, but that simple curiosity for games, became hunger for knowledge, this kids, by them selves, opened books, videos and tutorials to learn how to create games (of course we tryed to give them the easiest tools, engines and software ) but the thing is, that this kids started to read and search, investigate, all by them selves. I realized, that this doesn't happend at all in normal schools, but here, they wanted to learn, the reason? at their side they can see grownups making games, they wanted to be like them, and they learned how, this kids at the end of 48 hours created 3 complete amazing games.

[@galabyca]

This video is way too much underrated. Thank you sir for this great lesson. You've put words on what I always thought intuitively.

[@zaboomafia]

This is a great video. It helps to know and learn how we learn. I've thought of some of these concepts before but I am glad they have a name.

[@visualeyezdoug8158]

I'm writing an essay on dark souls right now, how dark souls should be taught in highschool. This video is a godsend for the Works Cited

[@mrsledge]

check his book

[@diegomunozpolo9079]

Sir, can you share me that essay with me? could be very useful for me in my classes

[@MiguelDLewis]

I’m reading the essay you wrote on Dark Souls 😄

[@analytixna6610]

@@MiguelDLewis WHERE IS IT

[@AlessandroFragaGomes]

Just watched 1:25 and I'm already impressed. All of this just observing his kid playing.... this is what I call proving with empiric study that games can be very helpfull. This guy is a genius.... God is good for giving him such knowledge.

[@huemins]

I dunno if he explicitly said so in the video because I'm stressed out at 4am in the morning to get a goddamn paper done.. but having read into some of his literature from the early 2000s, his ventures into computer games & learning started out with him watchin his son play. He was or since then has become a "gamer" himself. At least, he wrote about a bunch of games that he seemingly played himself by what I remember

[@ismatzahra3]

GOD. this video saved me. Thanks for sharing this video. amazing. it helped me a lot... thanks a lot once again.... :D

[@tanyazaitseva2399]

phenomenal!

[@realar]

It is this man's principles that show how AWESOME Ring Fit Adventure truly is, as a game and a tool for self improvement.

[@AlessandroFragaGomes]

I can't find his book anyhwhere, good videogames and good learning.... sad thing, much expensive here in brazil....

[@bambiballer32]

1. empowered learners-yes. 2. problem based learning-makes sense! 3. deep understanding-wow!

[@katyott21]

This video makes me happy I own stock in Activision-Blizzard! Game on!!

[@kindoflame]

My only real problems with this video is that Gee describes games as only a set of problems, which devalues the artistic aspects of a game, and that he talks only about single player games. I am doing a paper on Gee's theory of semiotic domains and competitive Pokemon and came here hoping to learn more about what messages the players of a game send each other through their actions. I am really happy that Gee and so many others are studying the educational aspects of single player games, but I think that there is a whole subject being passed over by not seeing multiplayer games as a form of communication.

[@timothychurchward4633]

Have a look at Gee's works "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" (2003) and "Good Video Games and Good Learning" (2005). He discusses multiplayer games in the context of "Distributed Knowledge" and "Cross Functional Teams". He's also got a book about the literacy of video games that you should check out. Multiplayer games is definitely something Gee was thought and written about.

[@fergochan]

@@timothychurchward4633 Thanks for the Tip! "Good Video Games and Good Learning" was easy to find on Google Scholar and it really complements this video well!

[@realar]

He's just one of the experts needed to fully recontexualize the video game as a way to better the planet.

[@brandonr6757]

at 7:17 - Pythagorean theorem applies to RIGHT triangles, not isosceles triangles.

[@josephpaterson5040]

Brandon R The quote is from the Wizard of Oz when the Scarecrow receives his "brain." While incorrect, the point is in line with the original, emphasizing the difference between knowledge of facts and ability to perform.

[@kevinfredericks2335]

I am about to make one bitchen' infographic of all this

[@regardingjohn]

Kevin, please please please share!

[@jwakeuplink7671]

I know it's been 3 years but if you ever did make an infographic of this, I'd love to see it!

[@mrsledge]

yes please i would like to see it

[@mariafareed3559]

A person who is receptive to learning can sometimes become overconfident.

[@dyrman100]

Where has this video first been published?

[@GarrettMunro]

on a MOOC via Coursera : www.coursera.org/course/videogameslearning

[@MatthewMiller1970]

Excellent succinct outline of the elements of game design that empower learning. Can also be taken as an outline of *how to design engaging learning* (or engaging games - since games = learning, fundamental precept here ;-).

[@squarol82]

Does anybody know about a book, where he has written about these principles?

[@Emmie12Rainbow]

"What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy"

[@squarol82]

thank you!!!!

[@mariafareed3559]

Respected Sir I do agreed but the learner becomes addictive of it n remains passive in his/her practical/real life

[@jeremysmith847]

@404 love seeing megaman

[@kon1402]

All this is great but there is a big problem: many teachers don't know how to write a paragraph so how can they become good "game" designers?

[@WinnerMin17]

We can design a "game" for them👾

[@virmacreations]

Fa fa fa fa fa fascinating!

[@matteo9158]

do you think there might be a correlation between this teaching abilities of games and the fact that gaming is most commonly a male activity? before thinking to an answer i would consider that much scientifical evidence stressed that boys are feeling very little involved in school and very involved in other (very often withdrawn) realities, like gaming indeed. this give a really deep understanding not just about games, but also about online communities and social networks! sandboxes in which you can trial and error what you think with a safe distance from the usual judgemental societal attitudes!!

[@dnichols24]

games have a great potential in destroying wonder. yes they can create it. but if you test this on small children, they will depend upon GAMES for all - ALL- of their instruction

[@TheAlexandrasolheim]

game tune in the pack ground is irritating, stress!!! Hate that in my sunday naturer programs. Think more David Attenburough quality of storytelling.