Gaming
What is gaming?
A Method if instruction requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules
What are some of the benefits of simulation?
>Teach critical thinking skills
>High level decision making skills
>Serves as a feedback tool for an assessment cycle of repeated performance, clinical practice and improvement
What does the role play method cause in the learners?
Arise feelings and elicit emotional responses in the learners
A role model is ...
is a learning method in which the learner acquires new behaviors and social roles by identification with the role model
Who is self instruction best directed for?
Self directed learners
Gaming improves ...
recall and long term retention of information
What does gaming, simulation, and role play have in common?
Experiential learning
Should the role play method be employed in a group of new hires or a staff on a medical unit that has worked together for five years?
medical unit that has worked together for five years
What two professionals are excellent examples of role model?
-Preceptors
-Mentors
Name individuals who may not benefit from self instruction.
-those who have hearing and visual impairments
-low literacy skills
-those who tend to procrastinate
What should the educator do at the end of a gaming session?
A debriefing session
When is a simulation most effective?
When it makes the learning experience resemble real life as much as possible but in a nonthreatening way
What is the time period that a role play method should fall into?
As short as 5 minutes
No longer then 15 to 20 minutes
Benefits of Role Model
-potential of positive role models to instill socially desired behaviors
-achieve behavior change primarily in the affective domain
Give an example of a self instruction module.
-study guides, workbooks, workstations, videotapes, internet modules, computer programs
Educational software disguised in a game format
Edutainment
What are some characteristics of a simulation experience?
>Impose time constraints
>Provides realistic levels of tension>Uses actual equipment
>Important features of the environment in which the skills to be performed are present
The Role Model teaching method is a central concept to what theory of Albert Bandura?
Social Learning Theory
What is role conflict?
Arise when a learner's past behavior patterns are incompatible or different from another role that a person may assume
Why might learners and educators resist the self instruction method?
It depersonalizes the teaching-learning process.
What are two limitations of gaming?
> May be threatening to some learners
>Requires group size to be small so all can participate
>Requires more flexible space instead of a conference or classroom
>Potentially higher noise level
>May be more physically demanding
>Learners with disabilities may not be able to participate
Why are simulation experiences not widely available to train patients or family members?
Lack of space/equipment
High cost of simulatorsWhen is Role play best utilized for?
Discussions or Interactions
What two skills does role modeling help new health care professionals develop?
critical thinking and interpersonal skills
An individualized method of self study using technology to deliver an educational activity.
Computer-assisted instruction