When I think ‘game’ I instinctively think of hopscotch or something similar from my childhood. Suspecting that my retro association is restricted to me, I asked the rest of Team Totem what comes to mind when you say game. Here’s what they came up with...
Read MorePlace was an experiment on Reddit to examine human interaction at scale launched on April fool’s day and was live for 72 hours.
It simply started as a 1000 v 1000 blank canvas of pixels. Every 5 minutes someone could change the colour of a pixel.
As you can image it started off as a chaotic mishmash of colours and patterns but quite quickly clans started to form and people realised that if they worked together they would be able to produce something greater.
Read MoreSerious Games leverage the power of computer games design techniques and mechanics to captivate and engage end-users for purposes beyond pure entertainment. While ensuring learners are challenged and motivated, the main purpose of a Serious Game is to develop new knowledge, skills and to ultimately produce a behaviour change. Serious Games enable learners to undertake tasks and experience situations which would otherwise be impossible and/or undesirable to practice in the real world for reasons of cost, time, logistics and safety.
Read MoreSocial learning theory focuses on the importance of observation and modelling as a key part in the learning process alongside classical and operant conditioning.
Social learning was illustrated by one of my favourite experiments by Banduras Bobo Doll experiment in 1961. Modelling is taking on board the behaviours which we observe from people around us. In society, we are surrounded by role models, who illustrate both positive and negative behaviours. For children this modelling is an essential part of their development, helping to mould them into the person they are to become. It is also important for adults as well.
Read MoreThere is a lot of chatter amongst those who are interested in businesses and organisations about the value of management. There is the whole push towards Agile. On top of this, there are radical new ways of structuring organisations, such as that being proposed in the recent book Holacracy. And those chattering can question the worth of anything with the title “management” or “manager” in it.
Read MoreGoogle Glass was first made available for sale in 2013 and brought with it the promise of a new way of viewing the world with added information and personalised views, if you could afford the hefty price tag of course. At the same time Virtual Reality stormed into our awareness with the Oculus Rift, a completely immersive, yet still admittedly basic, gaming head set.
Read MoreIt looks like the Dutch are once more a step ahead in the world of serious gaming. Researchers from Radboud University have received funding to develop a serious game which will aim to train officers how to optimally respond under stressful situations.
Read MoreWe were interested to hear about OpenReach’s use of immersive simulations to safely train new engineers in the skills they will need to help the firm in its plans to provide 12m homes with super fast broadband by 2020.
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