A strong sense of community creates safety. Open up space for students (players) to interact with one another, a space for which you’ve created 1) a need to know, 2) a need to share what they know, and 3) the infrastructure for that sharing. “Sharing should feel like a gift,” Salen said. Let players/students participate in the designing too. In participatory learning, like open-source code writing, the design keeps getting better.http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/03/fun-failure-how-to-make-learning-irresistible/I've heard kids chuckle with this. It really does work. The article, Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible, has great insight.
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