{"id":144,"date":"2025-03-15T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/gaming-for-good-the-disconnection-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:45:27","slug":"gaming-for-good-the-disconnection-challenge","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/chapter\/gaming-for-good-the-disconnection-challenge\/","title":{"raw":"Gaming for Good: The Disconnection Challenge","rendered":"Gaming for Good: The Disconnection Challenge"},"content":{"raw":"Now have students access the student chapter<a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudent\/chapter\/the-disconnection-challenge\/\"> The Disconnection Challenge<\/a>. Have students watch the video and answer the multiple-choice questions, or show the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/222690829\">video without the questions<\/a> in fullscreen.\r\n\r\nAfter students have watched the video (and answered the questions if applicable), have them complete the interactive activity to analyse the Disconnection Challenge as a game.\r\n\r\n[h5p id=\"11\"]\r\n\r\nExplain that the Disconnection Challenge is a simple example of a \"game for good\" that uses some of the elements of games (like a goal, quantification and competition) to make people do something positive.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Make sure students understand that the goal of the Disconnection Challenge was <strong>not <\/strong>to get people to use media <strong>less<\/strong>, but the be more mindful of their media use and identity specific activities (like Snapchat streaks) that they weren't enjoying.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>Now have students access the student chapter<a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudent\/chapter\/the-disconnection-challenge\/\"> The Disconnection Challenge<\/a>. Have students watch the video and answer the multiple-choice questions, or show the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/222690829\">video without the questions<\/a> in fullscreen.<\/p>\n<p>After students have watched the video (and answered the questions if applicable), have them complete the interactive activity to analyse the Disconnection Challenge as a game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"h5p-11\">\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-11\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"11\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Disconnection Challenge Questions\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Explain that the Disconnection Challenge is a simple example of a &#8220;game for good&#8221; that uses some of the elements of games (like a goal, quantification and competition) to make people do something positive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure students understand that the goal of the Disconnection Challenge was <strong>not <\/strong>to get people to use media <strong>less<\/strong>, but the be more mindful of their media use and identity specific activities (like Snapchat streaks) that they weren&#8217;t enjoying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-144","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":141,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/144\/revisions\/595"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/141"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/144\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}