Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 23, Pokémon GO

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[00:00:00.000]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom, Pokemon Go.
[00:00:05.832](techno music)
[00:00:18.161]Hi, I'm Zoe Falls.
[00:00:19.365]And I'm Guy Trainin.
[00:00:20.789]And today we're gonna talk about Pokemon Go.
[00:00:23.752]And Pokemon Go has kinda taken over the internet,
[00:00:26.658]and it's taken over the smart phones of
[00:00:29.040]basically everyone I know, because most people
[00:00:33.689]grew up with Pokemon, at least a lot of people,
[00:00:37.212]and it's an app that allows your little avatar
[00:00:42.618]to go around and collect Pokemon through
[00:00:45.157]an augmented reality interface.
[00:00:48.347]So it starts with a map overlay of wherever you are.
[00:00:52.470]And this is where we are.
[00:00:56.351]And I'm new to this.
[00:00:58.319]I just downloaded it this morning, so I'm not fully there,
[00:01:01.550]although I am level three.
[00:01:02.732]After this morning?
[00:01:03.565]Very proud.
[00:01:04.398]Well done.
[00:01:05.662](chuckles)
[00:01:06.495]Because I didn't drive to work,
[00:01:07.673]somebody else drove for me.
[00:01:09.063]So you walk around, and this is exactly where we are.
[00:01:11.471]We're inside the building, and they really map
[00:01:13.929]the environment around you based on
[00:01:16.556]what is really out there, which is fantastic,
[00:01:22.298]because that means that, as teachers,
[00:01:25.534]we're gonna see all of this in the fall,
[00:01:27.538]because everybody has downloaded this.
[00:01:29.836]Not every kid will have a smart phone in school
[00:01:33.631]that they're going to use this,
[00:01:35.098]but they're all going to be aware,
[00:01:36.462]they're all gonna be playing it in one way or another,
[00:01:39.202]and so we can think about this as a distraction.
[00:01:43.794]It might be a distraction in the classroom,
[00:01:45.699]but there are ways to think about,
[00:01:47.512]how do you leverage this phenomenon to really
[00:01:50.441]helping education?
[00:01:52.307]So walk us a little bit through,
[00:01:53.731]because I'm new to all of this.
[00:01:56.251](chuckles) So as you're going through,
[00:01:57.263]so you found a Pokestop.
[00:02:00.206]And Pokestops are places that in your community
[00:02:03.605]or anywhere you are, have some sort of significance
[00:02:07.362]to where you are.
[00:02:09.511]And when you go to the Pokestop, you spin the medallion
[00:02:12.474]if you're close enough to it,
[00:02:14.481]and it'll give you three things:
[00:02:16.984]Pokeballs, potions, and other things you need
[00:02:19.642]to advance in the app.
[00:02:22.139]And the one thing I like about this
[00:02:23.625]is if you click on the little arrow,
[00:02:25.657]it actually tells you something about the spot you're in,
[00:02:27.869]so with encouragement, kids can actually learn
[00:02:30.533]to explore the environment in a way that is relevant.
[00:02:36.059]They can find the things that are actually interesting
[00:02:38.414]in their environment, and not just wander around
[00:02:40.267]and say there's nothing here, which I like.
[00:02:44.559]And then the larger ones, so we see this red thing,
[00:02:47.909]those are gyms, which, you're not high enough yet.
[00:02:51.381]You have to reach level five before you can go to a gym.
[00:02:54.637]But the gyms are where you go to train your Pokemon.
[00:02:58.068]That's also at level five where you pick your team.
[00:03:01.238]There are three teams.
[00:03:02.538]There's the red team, there's the yellow team,
[00:03:05.298]and there's the blue team.
[00:03:07.311]And the unlying forms will tell you more than
[00:03:09.893]what you needed to know.
[00:03:12.128]As you choose your team, they kinda give you a little brief
[00:03:15.704]bio of what the different teams do,
[00:03:17.736]but most people choose their team based on
[00:03:20.441]which gym is closest to where they spend most of their time.
[00:03:22.797]There's the yellow gym down the street from where I live,
[00:03:25.334]so I joined the yellow team.
[00:03:27.064](chuckles)
[00:03:28.282]So when you're walking around, what it'll do is,
[00:03:33.078]this circle radius that it's letting out,
[00:03:36.204]when a site, a Pokestop or a gym--
[00:03:40.349]I'm gonna walk around and see if I can
[00:03:42.096]find anything we can--
[00:03:43.614]When they touch that circle, that's when you have
[00:03:47.102]access to whatever that object is.
[00:03:49.802]So as you see, the map will live update as he moves around.
[00:03:54.697]So if you're on a data plan, be aware that this
[00:03:58.516]will use all of your data.
[00:04:00.101]This game also drains your battery really quickly.
[00:04:02.967]There is a setting where you can go
[00:04:04.957]into a power saving mode, but be aware
[00:04:08.761]that it will drain your battery very quickly.
[00:04:12.662]And as you see, so he found another Pokestop.
[00:04:21.112]There's another Pokestop.
[00:04:22.613]If we were close enough, he would be receiving
[00:04:25.502]items for attending.
[00:04:27.100]And you can return to the same Pokestop.
[00:04:31.839]And so what he just pulled up now shows
[00:04:33.972]Pokemon that are in the area, and right below
[00:04:37.039]the greyed out area shows little feet,
[00:04:40.677]and that's how close they are to you.
[00:04:42.622]So three means they're still pretty far out,
[00:04:45.431]two they're closer, one they're pretty close.
[00:04:49.205]If it's greyed out, it means it's one you don't already have
[00:04:51.424]in your Pokedex.
[00:04:52.948]If it's colored in, it means you already have one.
[00:04:56.357]You can collect multiples of the same one,
[00:04:58.371]and in fact, you want to, because you also get
[00:05:00.447]a little, think they call them food,
[00:05:03.170]but you use those to...
[00:05:04.814]Candy, that's what it is.
[00:05:06.744]And you use those to make them evolve,
[00:05:09.408]to give them more power, so when you go to the gym,
[00:05:12.469]you have Pokemon that can do something
[00:05:14.366]other than get beat very badly
[00:05:16.740]like I did the first time I went to a gym.
[00:05:19.418]Didn't know what I was doing and lost a lot.
[00:05:22.732]So one of the other things, if you go into here,
[00:05:28.357]and so these are the Pokemon that you have.
[00:05:32.263]And I always recommend that we sort them
[00:05:34.478]by combat power, because those are the ones
[00:05:37.483]that you're going to want to focus your energy on,
[00:05:39.923]cuz they're gonna do the best things for you at the gym.
[00:05:42.538]Now if you slide over, it'll take you where you have eggs,
[00:05:46.075]and eggs go into the incubator.
[00:05:48.273]This is what I call the Fitbit part of Pokemon,
[00:05:50.975]because once you have an egg in the incubator,
[00:05:53.213]you have to walk.
[00:05:54.676]Now the app does have to be open to count the steps,
[00:05:58.102]and every five kilometers, you incubate an egg,
[00:06:03.061]so it encourages kids to go out there--
[00:06:06.049]And move, and also, to figure out the metric system.
[00:06:09.908](chuckles)
[00:06:11.268]Because they don't know what five kilometers is.
[00:06:13.080]It doesn't work if you're in the car.
[00:06:14.847]That's very nice.
[00:06:16.021]Like if you're driving around, it doesn't work.
[00:06:17.974]You can't cheat.
[00:06:19.072]You can't cheat.
[00:06:20.112]Does it work when you bike?
[00:06:21.495]That I don't know, because I had a friend that
[00:06:23.120]tried it out in the car.
[00:06:24.438]They're like, maybe if I go really slow,
[00:06:26.487]like ten miles an hour through the neighborhoods.
[00:06:28.239]No.
[00:06:29.233]You gotta walk.
[00:06:30.391]You gotta walk.
[00:06:31.706]And the map will change the way it's dark outside.
[00:06:33.844]The map will look kinda what Google maps does
[00:06:36.669]when it's dark outside,
[00:06:38.149]it'll change to that darker interface.
[00:06:39.982]So that'll work.
[00:06:41.786]I'm trying to start the incubating.
[00:06:45.647]Start.
[00:06:46.845]You don't have any eggs yet.
[00:06:48.164]I do have an egg.
[00:06:49.329]You do have an egg?
[00:06:50.589]Yeah, I think so.
[00:06:52.050]See, an egg.
[00:06:53.365]Want to start incubating.
[00:06:55.099]Do I need to--?
[00:06:56.928]Is it greyed out?
[00:06:59.687]Looks like it's greyed out.
[00:07:00.911]Maybe I can't.
[00:07:02.290]Maybe I have only one incubator, or the incubating one.
[00:07:05.579]And I cannot walk well,
[00:07:07.221]because I'm recovering from surgery, so this is not gonna
[00:07:09.769]work well for people recovering from surgery.
[00:07:12.816]This was confusing to me where it says
[00:07:14.970]that the incubator, how they gave the infinity sign,
[00:07:16.756]that means you can use it.
[00:07:18.339]As many times, not that you have infinite numbers of that.
[00:07:21.751]So I was thinking about the few ways you can use it,
[00:07:26.365]or you're going to see.
[00:07:28.068]As a teacher, I think especially elementary
[00:07:29.979]and to middle school, where I think you see it first,
[00:07:32.240]is when kids can choose what to write about.
[00:07:34.208]They're probably gonna write about,
[00:07:36.199]when they don't know what to write about,
[00:07:39.084]they're gonna write about Pokemon Go,
[00:07:41.012]and where did they get their Pokemon and all of that.
[00:07:43.186]And that's fantastic.
[00:07:45.789]Jim Gee used to give an example of when you think about kids
[00:07:51.499]and their limited capacity to remember things
[00:07:54.605]and to process a lot of information and all of that,
[00:07:56.675]and he always said, you know.
[00:07:58.142]In those days, there were only 150 Pokemon.
[00:08:01.432]There are a lot more.
[00:08:02.977]The kids remember all the Pokemon and varied forms,
[00:08:05.371]and what do they eat, and who do they combat,
[00:08:07.000]and what are their attacks.
[00:08:08.742]He used to say, "You can't say that kids can't learn
[00:08:13.037]"really sophisticated things if they can do all of that.
[00:08:16.142]"The trick is to get them interested."
[00:08:17.939]So what got me thinking about Pokemon Go
[00:08:22.381]is really not necessarily, what can we do with
[00:08:25.593]the exact game, although it is interesting.
[00:08:27.529]But also, thinking about the potential of game mechanics
[00:08:32.441]in getting kids engaged and getting them to learn things
[00:08:35.290]that are potentially really sophisticated,
[00:08:38.379]because while it is Pokescience, it's not real science,
[00:08:42.808]but if you think about learning things about
[00:08:45.972]different animals, flora, fauna and all of that,
[00:08:47.782]there are very clear similarities.
[00:08:50.342]I mean, they didn't bring it from nowhere.
[00:08:52.276]So we're gonna see it in writing.
[00:08:53.711]Definitely reading, especially if you encourage kids
[00:08:56.578]to go online and find out what others are saying,
[00:08:59.509]what tricks they have and all of that.
[00:09:01.375]Kids are exploring, they're going.
[00:09:03.486]Well it can be a prompt for a web search or web quest
[00:09:05.743]that you have them do based on a Pokestop
[00:09:08.243]that's near their neighborhood.
[00:09:09.871]And then they're forced to go out and learn
[00:09:11.794]a little bit more about where they live,
[00:09:13.771]the environment around the school.
[00:09:16.860]I've heard some of my friends that teach.
[00:09:19.311]They're talking about doing Pokebreaks.
[00:09:20.981]Everybody goes for a little walk outside,
[00:09:22.549]and that's a good way to just get kids outside.
[00:09:26.548]Even outside of the game, actually looking
[00:09:28.806]at what's around them.
[00:09:31.285]And having that experience outside
[00:09:34.185]integrated with the video game.
[00:09:35.954]Yeah, and the video game actually does do that
[00:09:38.312]with virtual reality.
[00:09:39.710]With a (mumbles) reality really, not virtual reality.
[00:09:42.680]So if you do go outside, your camera can be on
[00:09:47.439]and then it looks like you're finding Pokemon
[00:09:49.940]right out there, and you're actually
[00:09:51.773]looking at what's around.
[00:09:53.372]Now we really don't want kids necessarily to walk outside
[00:09:56.444]with their heads buried in the phone only,
[00:10:00.690]so you've gotta find kind of that sweet spot between
[00:10:03.372]having, "We're going to the park.
[00:10:05.195]"We're gonna spend 10 minutes catching Pokemon
[00:10:07.675]"and then everybody's phones are in
[00:10:09.165]"and we're going to attend to the outside,"
[00:10:11.272]is one way to think about it.
[00:10:12.636]But it is a way to motivate kids to want to be outside.
[00:10:16.073]I do think that you can think about mapping and geography
[00:10:19.402]really, really well because suddenly, they're interested
[00:10:22.006]in finding, "So where is that spot?"
[00:10:24.277]You know?
[00:10:25.580]"I'm trying to find it.
[00:10:27.120]"How do I get there?
[00:10:28.397]"What is it?"
[00:10:29.459]And so it's a way really to approach the small scale
[00:10:32.091]geography of your immediate neighborhood,
[00:10:34.584]your immediate environment, reading directions.
[00:10:37.349]And they do give you a little compass,
[00:10:39.134]and a map, so you can teach students some easy
[00:10:42.063]baseline navigation, talk about true north
[00:10:44.810]versus magnetic weight, so you can have--
[00:10:46.923]Some concepts out there that can really
[00:10:50.088]encourage them to learn new things.
[00:10:53.076]And a lot of it is about figuring out
[00:10:57.097]what you can do with it and how you make it go.
[00:11:00.956]And go to a gym and being trounced because you
[00:11:03.963]really don't know what you're doing.
[00:11:06.302]Not a clue (chuckles).
[00:11:07.989]It's an important piece of this, and it's also
[00:11:09.934]an important way to remind kids that learning is
[00:11:15.100]related to effort, it's related to trial and error,
[00:11:18.676]it's related to having good experiences
[00:11:20.768]and not so good experiences.
[00:11:22.293]You remember being trounced
[00:11:24.094]and you learned something from it, I hope.
[00:11:26.316](chuckles) I did.
[00:11:27.759]I did.
[00:11:29.300]That's how I learned about leveling them up,
[00:11:30.803]and evolving the ones you already have.
[00:11:32.086]And so thinking out loud with kids about these
[00:11:35.616]I think has clear parallels to also thinking about
[00:11:38.669]what now everybody's calling a grid,
[00:11:41.675]and I like talking about stamina.
[00:11:43.528]When you're learning, if it doesn't work the first time,
[00:11:46.493]you do it again, and you do it again,
[00:11:47.974]and eventually it comes out.
[00:11:51.306]And so you gain expertise over time and that
[00:11:53.280]idea of expertise can come out through games
[00:11:55.515]because that's exactly what games do.
[00:11:57.114]They reward you for small steps, but they also
[00:11:59.758]punish you mightily if you enter the gym completely empty.
[00:12:03.615]Exactly, you get trounced, painfully (chuckles).
[00:12:04.955](chuckles) And so these are just initial thoughts
[00:12:09.836]that at least I had about Pokemon Go.
[00:12:12.027]Do you have any other ideas?
[00:12:13.532]I have friends that work in GIS, and when I first
[00:12:15.218]started realizing what it was, I thought that was a really
[00:12:20.341]great way to even get kids talking about
[00:12:22.920]GIS and what it does, why mapping is such a big deal,
[00:12:28.853]because they can draw parallels to things like
[00:12:30.623]the GPS that their mom uses to figure out
[00:12:32.343]where they're going, or when the GPS
[00:12:34.496]in the car doesn't work, or how quickly the maps
[00:12:37.730]need to be updated based on changes
[00:12:40.213]that are happening in the city,
[00:12:42.220]cuz I know Lincoln has construction going on everywhere.
[00:12:44.886]So how do you reroute?
[00:12:47.581]And I think it opens avenues for different and more
[00:12:51.771]in depth discussions, because they can relate it
[00:12:54.515]to something simple and something like a game,
[00:12:56.787]and then make those parallels to larger things in the world.
[00:13:01.378]And I do want to say that simple is a little bit,
[00:13:06.480]it's not a simple game, because it is everywhere,
[00:13:13.245]and because it works everywhere and it actually
[00:13:16.619]encourages you to be moving around, so that idea
[00:13:19.241]that a video game has to be the kind of thing
[00:13:22.187]that you play in front of a screen in your living room
[00:13:25.885]or in your bedroom or in front of a tablet
[00:13:28.284]when you're sitting down is really kind of broken.
[00:13:31.547]And I can see, I can easily imagine, for example,
[00:13:35.373]a zoo, not using Pokemon Go, but creating something
[00:13:40.127]that basically takes you through the zoo
[00:13:42.566]and you can collect things, and you get information,
[00:13:45.475]and they send you to different places,
[00:13:47.479]and that kids can start being the ones navigating.
[00:13:50.000]"Where do I want to go?
[00:13:51.489]"How do I get there?"
[00:13:52.663]Which is really hard because you can look at the map
[00:13:55.227]and you have these folding maps and all of that,
[00:13:57.703]and it's hard to do on the go, and it's hard to
[00:13:59.304]kind of do that self-correction thing.
[00:14:01.892]And here, with a device, they suddenly can navigate.
[00:14:05.850]The same thing can be done in a museum or really
[00:14:08.207]any outdoor or indoor area.
[00:14:11.133]So what's really, really exciting about
[00:14:12.837]what that might mean to other applications
[00:14:16.760]that can be developed.
[00:14:19.057]So today, on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:14:22.128]we talked about Pokemon Go, and I hope you at least
[00:14:24.094]try it, learn about it from your students,
[00:14:26.877]or from anybody around you because, if you're not doing it,
[00:14:28.711]almost everybody else you know is doing it.
[00:14:31.621](Zoe chuckles)
[00:14:32.822]And we'll see you next time on
[00:14:34.263]Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
[00:14:35.645](techno music)

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