Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Know-How from Boomers to Gamers - Hardcover

Kapp, Karl M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787986542 ISBN 13: 9780787986544

Verlag: Pfeiffer, 2007

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Praise for Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning
 
"The big contribution of Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning to the field is that it provides direct linkages between the brain drain of the onrushing boomer retirement and the range of technologies, tools, and methodologies required to combat it."
--Mark Oehlert, learning strategy architect, Booz Allen Hamilton
 
"Kapp does an excellent job describing the neo-millennial student and the ways new and emerging web-tools, video games, simulations, and electronic gadgets need to be used in our modern 'classrooms' to convey knowledge to our techno-savvy students."
--Gordon Snyder, Jr., executive director, National Center for Telecommunications Technologies, andprofessor of telecommunications, Springfield Technical Community College
 
"If you need to recruit, train, or retain the next generation of workers,?Karl Kapp's new book, Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning, is a must-read strategy guide for working with the upcoming generation of gamers."
--Kevin Kruse, founder, e-LearningGuru.com, andpresident, AXIOM Professional Health Learning
 
"Kapp's book provides insights into an employee population that is not as well understood as the baby boomer generation. This is an essential read if you support, train, or manage the gamer generation. I will definitely share it with my team."
--Steve Sitek, director, learning and organizational development, Bristol-Myers Squibb
 
"As few others can, Kapp takes us on a delightful and amusing journey into the exciting future of learning and knowledge transfer--a future shaped by the power of digital games and electronic gadgets."
--Donald A. Deiesco, president and CEO, EduNeering, Inc.

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Karl M. Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University. He was responsible for the development of Bloomsburg's e-Learning Developer Certificate (an online program for instructional designers). He is also assistant director of Bloomsburg's Institute of Interactive Technologies and a highly sought-after speaker and consultant on the topic of convergence of learning and technology. He can be reached at www.karlkapp.com.

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As the members of the baby boomer generation retire, scientists, CEOs, nuclear technicians, doctors, senior trainers, and other highly skilled individuals are taking with them all of their expertise. Simultaneously, a new generation of employee (dubbed "gamers") is entering the workforce with a different focus and learning style. For the first time, our workplace will experience the invasive influence of video games, Internet surfing, blogging, and podcasting.
 
Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning is an innovative book that provides practical and original solutions to the impending boomer/gamer knowledge and skills transfer gap. The book outlines how gamer values such as the use of cheat codes, the love of gadgets, the need to play games, and the desire to be constantly connected can be used as methods for moving information from the heads of the boomers to the fingertips and gadgets of the gamers. As organizations begin to think strategically about how to attract, retain, and train new talent, this book will be an invaluable resource.
 
Author Karl Kapp includes a list of techniques for re-casting existing training and computer systems into tools that will bridge the gap between the boomers and the gamers. The book reveals the new methods that are being used successfully in a variety of settings such as the entertainment, game, and electronics industries. Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning offers valuable new information on the use of atypical learning and performance support methods?such as the use of Flash mobs and cheat codes, video iPods, and even instant messaging and blogging. The book debunks the notion that the "toys" and "bad habits" of gamers have a negative impact on the workplace. Instead, the book describes how these items can actually be used to achieve an advantage by savvy, innovative organizations.
 
The book also shows how to sell these "radical" concepts to upper management and executives who are typically boomers with a completely different perspective than gamers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pfeiffer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787986542
• ISBN 13: 9780787986544
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar