Why Games?
Mar. 25th, 2005 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avadFrom a talk by Dave Rejeski: The value of serious games is what they can provide:
*Topsight
This is the ability to see the whole system and how it all works. It leads to foresight: long-term thinking requires systems-thinking understanding. Leadership is synonymous with topsight.
*Collective Wisdom
Hard, messy problems require hundreds of perspectives. Serious games allow you to mobilize collective genius, and take advantage of the principle that many eyes make shallow bugs.
*Soft Failure
Serious games allow people to experiment and take risks safely.
*Practice Being Surprised
Serious games are an exercise machine for the frontal cortex. They let you learn to cope with novel situations and difficult problems.
*Transfer
"Transfer" is the kind of learning that will cause people to actually change their behavior. It's difficult to do and very important for serious games used in a training context, etc.
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*Topsight
This is the ability to see the whole system and how it all works. It leads to foresight: long-term thinking requires systems-thinking understanding. Leadership is synonymous with topsight.
*Collective Wisdom
Hard, messy problems require hundreds of perspectives. Serious games allow you to mobilize collective genius, and take advantage of the principle that many eyes make shallow bugs.
*Soft Failure
Serious games allow people to experiment and take risks safely.
*Practice Being Surprised
Serious games are an exercise machine for the frontal cortex. They let you learn to cope with novel situations and difficult problems.
*Transfer
"Transfer" is the kind of learning that will cause people to actually change their behavior. It's difficult to do and very important for serious games used in a training context, etc.
bookmark to seriousgame links
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Date: 2005-03-26 02:46 am (UTC):-D