Transcript Embodied simulation - Games and Physical Play LS2015

Games and Play
LS8 Digital games today – what do they deliver?
April 2015
Digital Media Program, University of Lower Silesia
Dr. Krystina Madej
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Georgia Institute of Technology
• Interactivity
• Child Development
• Mirror Neurons and Embodied Simulation
Neural basis of social cognition
We make sense of actions, emotions, and sensations of
others because of
• Mirror Neurons
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The same neurons discharge when an action is observed
as when it is executed
• Mirror Neurons
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Provide for feelings of empathetic involvement with
movements in images or
• Embodied Simulation
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The implicit model of other’s behaviors and experiences
• Embodied Simulation
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The implicit model of other’s behaviors and experiences
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What human’s see activates their own internal
representation of the body state seen
Humans’ recognize emotions displayed by others, their
facial muscles respond in kind.
• Embodied simulation: our response to engaging
rhythm and rhyme
A wonderful thing is a Tigger;
A Tigger's a wonderful thing.
Their tops are made out of rubber,
their bottoms are made out of spring
They're bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,
The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is:
I'm the only one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIwSk-1r3s (16 sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0q6G415TY
Tigger is a copyright figure of Disney and used here for educational purposes only
Overstimulation and stress
•Types and intensity of visual and auditory stimuli can greatly
affect very young children’s neural connections and have lasting
impacts on brain development (some connection to ADHD, a
hyperactivity disorder)
•Compared to real life, many television programs aimed at
young children have rapid image and sound changes that,
although they are extremely interesting for children, can overstimulate their senses and brain
•Educational programs tend to be slower paced (and don’t
seem to be connected to later attention problems)
• Our Morning Circle
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsgoz9_c21w
• Mr. Rogers vs To the Music
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Mz0p0kgc4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46WzdJA-sk
Minnesota Reading Corps Early Literacy Program
•Learning is imbedded in games, songs and rhyming.
•Uses “calming lotion”
• “Lotion is provided to children during transition periods
where they are shown how to massage their little hands
and fingers allowing them to self-relax and to focus on
the task at hand. That would be learning.”
Creating an engaging environment is not merely a matter of
decorative aesthetics
•Materials should invite engagement by making-meaning
•Meaning is encouraged by context
•To the Music - Old MacDonald Had a Farm vs Nursery Rhyme Singing
Time - Children's Songs with Mother Goose Club
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGymNLc87M&index=3&list=RDD_m9C6akSdg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_OO11QYrPg&index=11&list=RDD_
m9C6akSdg
•Jumpido
• http://www.jumpido.com/en
• Jumpido
• http://www.jumpido.com/en