it looks like video games may not just
be for teenagers anymore hey welcome to
watchmojo.com i’m your host derek allen
and today we’re speaking to Tenten white
co-founder of this still Interactive a
company that designed serious games for
training purposes you say that you
specialize in serious games or digital
games based learning what exactly is a
serious game well it’s taking all the
great things that we know as gamers and
applying those techniques to learning
the great thing is that the skills for
doing this have already been nurtured
and developed here in the games industry
it’s a matter of taking those skills and
matching them up with here’s a corporate
needs you name it you can almost always
find a great game mechanic and match
that with a great learning outcome did
you take us through the scenarios of
maybe a couple of your games and exactly
what the goal of these names are I’ll
give an example of a game that’s on our
website that anyone can go and play
called response ready so this game is
designed for site managers who are
putting together plan and it’s about
interactive case studies things that
they can expect to see you go in and the
first thing is you have to assign risk
to hazards but more importantly not just
assigning risk but understanding that
the risk you assign is linked to what
you’re going to do in the game and after
you’ve done that then you run through a
scenario and you have to actually deal
with the scenario based on the analysis
that you did in the first part of the
game and many people don’t succeed the
first time through and they have to play
it a couple times and by doing that
they’re learning what they have to pay
attention for how well do these sort of
virtual environments how well do they
translate to real life experiences in a
game you’re actually doing you’re not
just passively taking information in so
today training is all about do you know
what you should do on the job the
difference between a game and more
traditional learning is that I’m not
asking the question do you know what you
should be doing
I’m asking can you do the job and that’s
where we can map it to the bottom line
so how seriously do employees take these
games when they first are introduced to
them oftentimes they don’t take them
very seriously at all but once they
start playing them they really start to
use them as a powerful tool for us the
hard thing is to get people play at that
first time and just really see that this
is useful in to take it seriously once
they do that then they’re hooked well
thank you very much you’re very welcome
be for teenagers anymore hey welcome to
watchmojo.com i’m your host derek allen
and today we’re speaking to Tenten white
co-founder of this still Interactive a
company that designed serious games for
training purposes you say that you
specialize in serious games or digital
games based learning what exactly is a
serious game well it’s taking all the
great things that we know as gamers and
applying those techniques to learning
the great thing is that the skills for
doing this have already been nurtured
and developed here in the games industry
it’s a matter of taking those skills and
matching them up with here’s a corporate
needs you name it you can almost always
find a great game mechanic and match
that with a great learning outcome did
you take us through the scenarios of
maybe a couple of your games and exactly
what the goal of these names are I’ll
give an example of a game that’s on our
website that anyone can go and play
called response ready so this game is
designed for site managers who are
putting together plan and it’s about
interactive case studies things that
they can expect to see you go in and the
first thing is you have to assign risk
to hazards but more importantly not just
assigning risk but understanding that
the risk you assign is linked to what
you’re going to do in the game and after
you’ve done that then you run through a
scenario and you have to actually deal
with the scenario based on the analysis
that you did in the first part of the
game and many people don’t succeed the
first time through and they have to play
it a couple times and by doing that
they’re learning what they have to pay
attention for how well do these sort of
virtual environments how well do they
translate to real life experiences in a
game you’re actually doing you’re not
just passively taking information in so
today training is all about do you know
what you should do on the job the
difference between a game and more
traditional learning is that I’m not
asking the question do you know what you
should be doing
I’m asking can you do the job and that’s
where we can map it to the bottom line
so how seriously do employees take these
games when they first are introduced to
them oftentimes they don’t take them
very seriously at all but once they
start playing them they really start to
use them as a powerful tool for us the
hard thing is to get people play at that
first time and just really see that this
is useful in to take it seriously once
they do that then they’re hooked well
thank you very much you’re very welcome
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