Hands-on: Persuasive Games - Serious Games - Spring 2009

Contents

Slides

Overview of Today's Class [1/4, 2009/05/21]

• Project update
• Persuasive games

Project update [2/4, 2009/05/21]

• Prototype analysis reports?

Persuasive games [3/4, 2009/05/21]

• deanforamericagame
• Disaffected
• Airpot Security
• Killer flu

Discussion questions:

• What do you learn from the game?
• How is it "taught" in the game?
• Do you think that the learning is more effective in this context than if it were presented some other way (e.g. lecture, article, newspaper, radio)?

Reading for next time [4/4, 2009/05/21]

Evaluation

Prep for next time: Firm ideas about what should be on the pretest. Grounded in the learning objectives. Should be something that you hope for them to know after they played your game. We will present a pre-test to the students on Thursday.