Dr Paul Howard-Jones
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first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
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There's an idea, a common sense idea, that games are fun and we should be using more games in the classroom.
The trouble is that we haven't really understood how to do that.
What neuroscience is offering is a more thoughtful and principled way of understanding how we engage in games, what happens in the brain when we engage in games, and how we can use that understanding to support learning.
I think the really exciting thing is that dopamine can be responsible for increasing the efficiency by which neurons make connections, so-called synaptic plasticity.
Synapse is the technical word for the connection between the neurons.
Plasticity means that it can change.
And, of course...
We know from brain scans that video games, for example, are responsible for generating that sort of response in the brain.
So this is telling us a lot about how to increase engagement.
We're going to be seeing a lesson being taught in a way that he's using reward in an unconventional manner.
What you're going to see in the classroom is an intertwining of learning content and gaming rounds.
And in order to achieve and get the points...
It's not just about them being able to apply the information and to apply their understanding that they've just recently acquired.
It would also be a matter of luck as well.
So that's what makes it different.
Yes, I mean in the past you might say, here's a question I want to ask you, and if anybody knows the answer to this question, or if you can work the answer out, then you're going to get a gold star.
But what we find is when you actually look at the evidence, the likelihood of you remembering from that experience is actually not very well related to the number of gold stars that you're offering.
Well, yes, then neuroscience comes along.
And I think an important study was done by Fiorillo, who looked at the response of the reward system in monkeys.
So uncertain reward actually generates a greater response in the brain's reward system.
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