Volume 4, 2018
Experiential Learning and Education
Jessey Wright
Pages 134-160
Playing Games and Learning from Shared Experiences
One way for an experience to provide an effective scaffold for learning is when the concepts and theories it is intended to help students grasp and understand can be used to productively analyze, make sense of, and discuss the experience itself. In this essay I propose that games and game mechanics can be used to create learning experiences amenable to this kind of scaffold.