Amy Jo Kim’s Game Thinking got me thinking…
Amy Jo Kim’s Game Thinking got me thinking…
Amy Jo Kim’s Game Thinking got me thinking…
By Rob Alvarez Bucholska
September 30, 2017
Summary
In education, think of the students who are willing to try something new, who are particularly unsatisfied with how they currently learn.
The second habit, when you think about it, is especially hard.
Especially when we are teaching something, we are teaching it because, at least in general, we think it's true.
Think of a game that you played, could be "Hide and seek", at some point you didn't know this game existed.
There you just play and enjoy the experience because you like it! Finally there is a mastery stage, not all of us went through it in hide and seek, but think of those kids who started creating new versions of the game, who were the ones to pull people into playing, perhaps participated as a sort of referee, or even the older kid who organizes the younger ones when playing.
How does this habit relate to education? Well, the first application I'm able to see is thinking of your class in the same way.
If you are thinking of your course for the first time or on making some changes, don't begin the design of it by thinking how your students will find out about it, in many cases they don't even need to, it is just mandatory.
Don't start out either by thinking how you will introduce them to the subject, what jokes you can make in the first class or how you will explain what you will cover in the course.
What she proposes is to start by thinking of what will the students find interesting, will want to come back to, after they've gone through those phases, which you'll think about later.
Then Amy goes into how to identify these people, through a three-stage process and through a series of questions.
Reference
Bucholska, R. A. (2017, September 30). Amy Jo kim's game thinking got me thinking... Professor Game. https://www.professorgame.com/uncategorized/amy-jo-kims-game-thinking-got-me-thinking/.