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5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

Translating the above techniques into game mechanics can be beneficial from a motivational perspective and from an instructional strategy perspective for helping learners master the facts. Following are some game techniques related to facts.

5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

1. Stories

Researchers have found that the human brain has a natural affinity for narrative construction. People tend to remember facts more accurately if they encounter them in a story rather than in a list, studies find; and they rate legal arguments as more convincing when built into narrative tales rather than on legal precedent. This picks up on the elaboration technique embedding facts into a known context of the learner and is a key element in games. The story element of a game can help to encode the content more richly in the learner’s brain and help them with recall of the facts when needed. So a game that has a story helps lead to learning. In fact, when you listen to a story,your brain "rehearses" the elements of the story.

5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

2. Sorting

These are games where a learner needs to place content into the right slot or location. At the factual level, the learner doesn’t need to be able to understand the different categories or sorting requirements; they just need to identify what goes where. In fact, these kinds of games are good for having multiple levels, once the learner sorts correctly at the factual level, the next step is to have them sort by conceptual relationships instead of identification (moving up the knowledge hierarchy).

5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

3. Matching

These games require the learner to link an image or idea to another image or idea. Any game that requires matching fits into this category. These types of games can also be used to teach concepts using the same leveling up approach as described above. As an example, young adults who are learning to drive often do not appropriately identify road hazards and therefore don’t exercise the right amount of caution. To help overcome that obstacle, a game was created to teach them to identify various road signs and obstacles. In this game,the learners are asked to match the appropriate items with a work zone. The learner identifies the right items and drags the items onto the work zone allowing them to link the visual of the item with the idea of a work zone.


5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

4. Replay ability

When dealing with teaching facts, it’s a good idea to make the game replay able so that the player repeats it again and again. This doesn’t meant the content needs to be exactly the same but having similar content presented over and over again helps with memorization. While almost any game can be played again, the trick with declarative knowledge games is to keep the content fresh but still related to the knowledge that needs to be memorized. When considering the creation of games to teach facts, consider how you can get the learners to play it again and again.

5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

5. Trivia

Trivia is nothing but facts and declarative knowledge. Trivia games provide repetition, association and organizing, trivia games work very well for basic knowledge. A well-known example of a trivia game is Jeopardy or even Trivial Pursuit. One example is using a trivia game to reinforce product knowledge among salespeople. A trivia game was developed to help salespeople to memorize the features of new product so they could intelligently discuss them with customers. The game was played on a daily basis and each morning the salesperson would receive an email with a link to the game. The game presented them with five questions that they answered. The questions were all related to the product they would be launching in a few weeks. The goal was to take advantage of distributed practice, as discussed in chapter, and provide repetition for the learners. The questions were drawn from a pool of questions so the likelihood of an exact repeat of a question was small but it could occur. The scores were tailed each week on leader board that could also be viewed from the email. At the end of a five week period, the salespeople with the highest scores received a prize.

5 Game Techniques Related To Facts

Conclusion

As you can see, teaching basic knowledge with the need for reviewing content over and over and creating associations can be taught effectively if the serious learning game is appropriately designed.