One of the most common ways of course is to create and use 'activities' which often include games or simulations. Same thing. And one of the reasons why such activities have been successful is that we like games! How many hours have you 'wasted away' playing angry birds, xbox games, WOW, Star Wars online, or some other video game? Hell, how many of you have spent a lot of time and money at casinos playing poker or the slots? The skinny I learned today is ultimately we are addicted to problem solving. And "When we're playing games, we're not suffering."
I had shared on facebook a while back about a 4th grade teacher, John Hunter, who in order to teach his class about global conflict, he has created a game for them to play, "The World Peace Game". He was interviewed by CBS This Morning and he is also on Ted talks.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144133n
http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_on_the_world_peace_game.html
http://www.worldpeacegame.org/
Well, in the workshop, I found out about another brilliant person, Jane McGonical, who was approached the World Bank Group "to create a game as a direct response to African demands – namely, universities’ request to develop ideas to engage students in real world problems and to develop capacities for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Developing nations face steep challenges, and resources in these areas can be limited. These challenges demand the most robust and innovative of solutions.
EVOKE was also conceived as a crash-course in changing the world. It is a chance to showcase the kind of resourceful innovation and creative problem-solving that is happening today in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions, and to collectively imagine how the lessons from those scenarios can transfer, scale, and ultimately benefit the entire planet.
The World Bank Institute, the capacity-building arm of the World Bank, is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. One of its objectives is to create new platforms for learning, and knowledge exchanges to help practitioners construct their own development solutions and innovative approaches.
EVOKE is such a platform for open innovation. It is designed to support new ideas and collaboration, not to push existing solutions."
http://www.urgentevoke.com/ (this is the website to the game)
http://janemcgonigal.com/ (this is Jane's website, which includes videos from Teds talk, cnn, and others as well as information about her book "Reality is Broken" and more cool and awesome information)
Addendum:
A friend of mine sent me this link, very interesting addition to the conversation!
http://gdcvault.com/play/1017940/The-Science-Behind-Shaping-Player
Another Addendum:
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