How Playing Games Enables Engaging Ways of Learning Agility
How Playing Games Enables Engaging Ways of Learning Agility
How Playing Games Enables Engaging Ways of Learning Agility
By Ben Linders
January 11, 2024
Summary
According to Jakub Perlak, people can play games that have a meaningful purpose, and have fun in doing so.
Jakub Perlak gave a keynote about learning agility through games at ScanAgile 2023.
In games, we play with our imagination and we experience situations in an environment which is safe for trying and experimenting with something new, without high risk, Perlak said.
If we think about agility as the ability to respond to changes, games can help us experience how to navigate ambiguous, uncertain, and even complex situations, as Perlak explained: You as a participant sometimes don't have full instructions and you don't know what will happen with people who you are probably meeting for the first time.
InfoQ interviewed Jakub Perlak about learning agility through games.
InfoQ: How do games improve our learning? Jakub Perlak: Learning can be described as making new cognitive connections and brushing up on existing ones.
InfoQ: What kinds of game formats exist and what are the benefits and challenges of these formats? Perlak: There are plenty of formats depending on the number of players, how strict the rules are, and whether they are in physical or virtual settings.
Reference
Linders, B. (2024, January 11). How Playing Games Enables Engaging Ways of Learning Agility. InfoQ. https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/playing-games-learning-agility/