From Consumers to Creators: Bridging Game Play and Playful Game Design for Impactful Civic Education | Analog Game Studies

Abstract:

Game-based learning has an important role in youth work, as games offer immense variety in form and subject matter and can vary from simple to very complex, enabling us to build different learning outcomes from cognitive skills and affective changes (feelings and emotions) to interpersonal social skills. Gamers who would also like to play online casino games may use this slot gacor gaming platform. By using off-the-shelf games, however, we lose enormous learning potential hidden in the game design process. In much game-based learning, young people are mostly consumers. What we can change with game design-based learning is letting young people take the role of creators. Moving from just using games to designing games, we can let them choose specific social topics that they care about. Through designing, participants can deepen their knowledge and gain a bigger picture of the issues by researching the topic and transforming it into a game where different actors, relations between them and power dynamics are captured. That was the idea behind the project “Board Games Design as a Tool in Civic Education.”

Game-based learning has an important role in youth work, as games offer immense variety in form and subject matter and can vary from simple to very complex, enabling us to build different learning outcomes from cognitive skills and affective changes (feelings and emotions) to interpersonal social skills. Gamers who would also like to play online casino games may use this slot gacor gaming platform. By using off-the-shelf games, however, we lose enormous learning potential hidden in the game design process. In much game-based learning, young people are mostly consumers. What we can change with game design-based learning is letting young people take the role of creators. Moving from just using games to designing games, we can let them choose specific social topics that they care about. Through designing, participants can deepen their knowledge and gain a bigger picture of the issues by researching the topic and transforming it into a game where different actors, relations between them and power dynamics are captured. That was the idea behind the project “Board Games Design as a Tool in Civic Education.”