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List of Programs utilizing RPG for Education
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Hawke Robinson
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published
Aug 13, 2015
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last modified
Dec 08, 2022 10:47 AM
Gathered information on using role-playing games to achieve educational goals.
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Merging Role-playing Game terminology with Recreation Therapy terms
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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last modified
Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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filed under:
blog,
blog posting,
TODO
I'm currently working on a class project that involves developing a tabletop game as a recreation education intervention for adult special needs population (Autism Spectrum, physical disability, or others).
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My best ICT lesson: algorithms and binary meets fantasy scenarios
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Discipline: Education / Formal Classroom Setting,
rpg for education
Inspired by the book Computational Fairy Tales, Chris Leach created a fantasy world for his ICT class to introduce them to computational thinking - Re-posted here for archival purposes, an interesting article on how an information and communication technologies instructor used fantasy settings, that could be tied into role-playing gaming to help explain mathematical and computer science based concepts in ways that might be more accessible to a wider audience....
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New Sections: RPG Therapy and RPG Education Example Lists
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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blog,
blog posting,
RPG Research Project Updates,
rpg research website
Created two new lists on the website. One is a list of role-playing gaming therapy examples, another a list of role-playing gaming used for educational purposes.
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Notes from experiments on RPG optimization (Standard Non-therapeutic/education settings)
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Full Text,
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Gamer Floater hypothesis,
Gender / Sex related topics,
Gender Bias,
Social Skills Development through RPG,
correlative research,
FAQs / Frequently Asked Questions,
research,
anecdote,
blog posting,
RPG Research Essay,
RPG Research Project Updates,
causal study(ies)
Here is a summary of many observations I have made through various experiments in trying to optimize the RPG experience. These are based both on observations (most of which include thousands of hours of recorded RPG sessions), verbal feedback, and formal assessment forms from participants. Scores of variables were taken into consideration and repeatedly tweaked to try to find some level of causal changes, but at this stage are probably only at best correlative, in the enjoyment levels of participants. There are plenty of potential confounds here, and so every statement should have that taken into consideration that these should be further researched with more rigorous techniques. However, implementation of these observations does seem to have lead to consistently higher assessment & observation scores. I hope others find this useful for trying to optimize your own RPG setting. This was a non-therapeutic and non-educational setting, it was only for standard leisure activity of tabletop role-playing games.
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Notes from experiments on RPG optimization - Maximizing enjoyment, benefit, immersion, flow, safety, etc.
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Full Text,
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correlative research,
Gender Bias,
Case study(ies),
Potential RPG Research Question,
Effects of RPG,
anecdote,
FAQs / Frequently Asked Questions,
Analysis,
research,
Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, EEG,
absorption,
blog posting,
RPG Research Essay,
RPG Research Project Updates,
causal study(ies)
Here is a summary of many observations I have made over the decades through various experiments in trying to optimize the RPG experience. This is from a huge pile of hundreds of documents I have written, spanning over 15+ years of research (and nearly 40 years of RPG experience). It will likely take me a year or more to finish integrating all that information into this document. All of the placeholder topics I currently have documents to fill in the blanks, but I time is the challenge in doing so. Bit by bit I am uploading all that content to here.
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Old Research Repository
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Aug 16, 2017
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last modified
Jul 10, 2022 05:27 PM
This is RPG Research's older research repository. We are currently moving more than 3,000 content items (1 multi-page essay equals 1 content item) from this old site to our new repository at www.rpgresearch.com/research . The new repository is better organized and formatted, but it takes months for our volunteers to move all this content from the old site to the new site, so we are keeping the old repository available until the move is complete. All new research is being added to the new repository, no new research is being added to this old repository as of 2018.
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Østerskov Efterskole - Danish public high school teaching all subjects using LARP
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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LARP,
Effects of RPG,
blog,
Discipline: Education / Formal Classroom Setting,
blog posting,
rpg for education
Thanks to feedback from @Jmstar on Twitter, he pointed out a public school in Denmark teaching all subjects for what in the US we would consider sort of upper high school, or post high school between high school and college, teaching in depth educational subjects entirely using LARP techniques.
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Please contact me regarding your RPG projects for therapy or education
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Jun 20, 2015
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last modified
Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
I have spoken with many of you in recent years about your efforts to use role-playing games for achieving educational and therapeutic goals. I will be presenting very soon (possibly this weekend) with an update on the world-wide projects related to this topic. If you have a project you would like me to mention to the world, please contact me ASAP to let me know so I can include more up to date information. This includes tabletop, live-action (LARP), and computer-based forms of RPG.
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Presentation Video for Texas State University / Living Games Pre-Conference
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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RPG Research Presentation,
NOT Peer-reviewed,
LG Living Games Conference,
convention,
News,
blog posting,
Presentation,
TSU Texas State University
A short 14 minute summary, created for the Texas State University (TSU) / Living Games 2016 Conference/Pre-conference. While the essay paper for this event was submitted for peer review and rejected as the draft was, and I didn't have time at the time to make the needed changes to the paper. The non-academic track (not peer reviewed) related slideshow and recorded audio/video were accepted for presentation at the event (albeit a poorly done video that was painfully accelerated to squeeze into the allotted time).
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