Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword, by John Beck

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Crossing the Chasm

Where Is Everybody Going?

Traits of Boomers

Defining a Gamer: Four Levels

Traits of Gamers

The Chasm

Building the Bridge

What's Coming in This Book

Chapter 2 It's in the Game

Basic Types of Knowledge

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 3 The Virtual Apprentice

Higher-Level Types of Knowledge

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 4 Go, Go Gadget

Gadgets Allow Access

How Gadgets Will Be Used to Transfer Knowledge

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 5 Cheaters Never Win . . . or Do They?

To Use a Cheat Code or Not to Use a Cheat Code

Rules Were Made to Be Broken

Bending the Rules

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 6 Searching for the Ideal Learning Event

Learning at Work

Embracing Informal Learning

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 7 Replace Education with Automation

Innovation Trumps Education

Are We There Yet?

Don't Educate, Automate

Work Flow Learning

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 8 Trust Me; You Don't Want to Be the Boss

Warning: Gamer with Attitude Ahead

The Problem with Being the Boss

The Problem with Being the Teacher

Become a Strategy Guide

Create Self-Directed Teams

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 9 And the Winner Is . . .

Recruiting Gamers

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 10 Please, Please Can I Buy a Game, Gadget, or Gizmo?

Tough Sell

Diffusion of Innovations

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 11 Getting to the Next Level

Knowledge Requirements Planning

Workplace Implications

Summary

Chapter 12 It's Not "Just a Game."

It's a Virtual Black Market

Making an Honest "Online" Living

Enter the Matrix

Crossing the Bridge

The Future

Epilogue

Notes

Index

About the Author

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.

"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.