SEL

This note last modified January 5, 2025

Social and emotional learning

Not exactly related, but meaningless competition

validated surveys
- SEL
transformational games need to simulate complex social situations
- Real SEL events are complex social experiences, so how do we simulate those? Removing enough to make a reasonable teaching moment, while not oversimplifying.
list of transformational games
- SEL games
declarative learning
- In contrast to SEL, declarative learning is direct, fact based, and measurable via an exam. For example, learning that a human is a mammal is declarative learning.
Review Of Trends In Serious Gaming For Education-Young
- Generally a pretty pessimistic paper on GBL. Talks a bit about how the SEL benefits from games are near self evident
- Assuming that it is correct (which I feel is reasonable because no alarm bells went off as I read it), I think this is my major takeaway: Games and declarative learning don’t work well together; past studies haven’t shown too much of a benefit. There are a variety of reasons that this might be the case. Games are better for SEL. There are a variety of ways for the field of GUR to improve itself, which I’ve detailed above.
Reflective Elements In Mass-Market Games-Gandhi
- There have been recent pushes to study games which enable social and emotional learning. Reflective games are well suited to this task. As examples, see Spent and Papers Please.
Reducing Loneliness In Chronically Ill Children-Alexandridis
- these children are less exposed to other children and are stunted in SEL
Portnoy
- SEL programs
Perspective Taking And Decision Making In Educational Game Play-Hilliard
- An analysis of Quandary and whether games could be used for SEL, learning philosophy, moral learning
Learning_Education_Games-Schrier
- Ethics/SEL Games
Ithrive Game Design Studio Toolkit
- Wonderful source of icebreaker games and games that help build SEL