Comments on: A digital museum space for kids

By: Collaborative, intergenerational, play-based learning about history | Making manifest

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:02:20 +0000

[...] learning about history Posted on 18 September 2010 by Cath At THATCamp Canberra, I hosted a session on designing a dedicated digitally-enhanced physical space for collaborative, intergenerational, [...]

By: Cath

Cath — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:24:47 +0000

Ellen, agree that intergenerational appeal is critical. Look forward to discussion even if the sesh doesn’t fly.

By: Cath

Cath — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:23:17 +0000

Scvngr, hmm.. thanks. (So tempted to say, why don’t they hunt down their missing vowels???)

Since yesterday I am iPhone-equipped so I’ve got the app and had a look but… there’s nowt going on round here – maybe it is yet to infiltrate the southern hemisphere? so it’s hard to appreciate its potential.

This video of a TEDx talk by ‘Scvngr ninja’ is worth a look, about building a game layer in the world, game dynamics, influence and status, and how to use human motivations for good.

By: Lise

Lise — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:05:26 +0000

I’ve just been looking at the SCVNGR app, http://www.scvngr.com/, which seems to be heading in this direction. It seems to be a more educational, and game based version of foursquare (which seemed to me to lack much point).

By: forsyth

forsyth — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:16:21 +0000

I am also interested in similar idea as would like a local studies based game which can be expanded as different geographic areas add their information in. It could start as simply as with the local studies/museum based information for one area, and be web based or based on mobile devices (or both). But as different organisations etc add key information the game can expand.

Would like a game adults interested in as well as children, and yes do know I need to put some work in on this.

By: michaelhoney

michaelhoney — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:22:05 +0000

Yes, interesting.

Setting up an infrastructure that allows users to be location-tracked (RFID? WIFI tracking using iPod Touch?) would allow a bunch of activities involving discovery and teamwork. Users could collect tokens by performing tasks/going to locations/taking photographs/scanning barcodes. Kiosks at different locations could provide info/verify tokens. Groups could split into teams to solve a problem together.

I think the right way to approach this is to pick a topic and the learnings associated with it, then devise a game/activity that delivers those learnings. Then think about the infrastructure and how it can be made generally useful for other topics.

Note that the field of play could be as small as the GAD, or as big as the Internet…