From game to learning

I recently attended an interesting workshop on Cambrian Game. The game allows players to submit their own leaf in form of pictures, images, music/sounds, movies, commentaries to a virtual tree using their mobile devices or PC. The players can link a new leaf to any inspiring leaf. A leaf can trigger some leaves which will grow the tree explosively.

Playing Cambrian game has a lot of similarities with blogging. The game encourages individual to share their personal thoughts, memories and favorites in public spaces, in particular using their mobile devices.

The game has a lot of potentials in supporting educational process. Some learning activities that can potentially be developed further using this game include “mind mapping”, “idea generation” and “data gathering/collection” activities.