Sustainable Demolitions :a construction pre-apprentice game

Daniel Bonnici : Victoria UniversityDale Linegar :: Oztron MediaMark O’Rourke :: Victoria University

May 30, 2013

Cert II in ConstructionEnvironmental sustainability and demolition

Student responses:

• Ben: “Better than a book because you get to visualize it and move around”

• Jake: “Hands on, keeps your mind occupied on that thing whereas when you’re writing in a book you get distracted and just start doodling cos you get bored”

• Greg: “When you find something interesting you want to go further and further, the game’s like that“

• Toma : “Same as learning on a building site, but not as intimidating”• Angus: “I’m like more a hands on person, I need to see something,

or if someone shows me how to do something I know how to do it, but if they write it I wont really know”

“Better like cos you’re actually seeing it and doing it rather than just reading about it….”

Games-based delivery is particularly suited to VET learners who are:

• more visual than verbal, in that they like to watch and see rather than read and listen

• hands-on learners who prefer to learn by doing and by practising • characterised by socially contextualised learning where they like to

learn in groups with other learners • not self-directed learners, but like to have instructor guidance and a

clear understanding of what is required of them.

(Smith and Dalton 2005)

Targeted delivery

Serious Games Group

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Dale LinegarDirectorOztron Media+61 415 049 668dale@oztron.com

Mark O’RourkeCentre for Collaborative Learning and TeachingVictoria University+61 400 660 224mark.orourke@vu.edu.au

Daniel BonniciTrades CollegeVictoria University+61 3 9919 8429daniel.bonnici@vu.edu.au