Sheep, Goats, and the

Future of Education

Jesse SchellGames for Change 2013

Can Games Educate?

How Do Games Fit Into Education?

Everything is changing!• Standards• Technology• Delivery Systems• Economic Models• Students• Parents• The World

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+ =PsychologyTechnology Destiny

Do what they’re told Do what they want

Two Types of Learners

A society of sheep means…

• a society easily manipulated by advertising

• a society willing to accept what is provided

• fewer entrepreneurs

1. Anyone Can Design a Great Game2. All of us Together are Better Designers than

any of us Alone3. The More we all Share, the Smarter we all

Become

Goat Paradise!

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. –Albert Einstein

Fear Apathy

Curiosity

Curiosity

InsightWonder

The cure for boredom is curiosity…

There is no cure

for curiosity.

Some Thoughts On Education (1692)Johnathan Locke

“I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children…”

“It’s not that American schools do anything special to teach creativity – it’s just that they are less efficient at

stamping it out.”

Who wants your goatware?

Parents? Kids? Administrators?

Who wants your goatware?

Teachers!

Thanks!Slides: slideshare.net/jesseschell

Twitter: @jesseschell Email: jesse@schellgames.com

Psychology Notes and Stuff• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy• http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gl20/Geor

geLoewenstein/Papers_files/pdf/PsychofCuriosity.pdf

• http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/fosteringcuriosity.htm

• http://www.academia.edu/290259/An_Applied_Social_Psychology_Perspective_on_Immigrants_and_Immigration

• http://www.midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/724.pdf

• http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/38611/McClellandMeganPublicHealthGenderDifferences.pdf?sequence=1