Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

Katie Salen: The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM)

Katie Salen announces the birth of a new journal from MIT press, co-edited by Salen, David Buckingham, and Tara McPherson.

Katie Salen: When Learning Happens in the Spaces Between

In conjunction with tomorrow’s panel discussion in Cambridge on how technology is changing kids and learning, Katie Salen asks: “How might three dots spell the future of learning?” Salen will be a panelist at the forum along with Howard Gardner and Henry Jenkins.

Katie Salen: Gamestar Mechanic Project FAQ Part 2

We began testing Gamestar Mechanic with kids using an extremely rough interaction prototype. This prototype modeled the basic game making activity we were after, but lacked most of the features envisioned for the final application. In order to build a prototype our team had to reach some consensus about the values, knowledge, and practices the game would model. The following post discusses some of the concepts we ended up including.

Katie Salen: Gamestar Mechanic Project FAQ Part 1

As Jim noted in his last post, over the next week members of the Gamestar Mechanic team will be sharing some of their thoughts on the motivations and ideas for the project, as well as some initial challenges and revelations that have emerged during the development process. In order not to leap too directly into the middle of things, here is a short FAQ that will help contextualize the posts to come:

Release of Game Dialogue Transcript: “Everywhere Now: Kids, Games, and Learning”

Sixty experts, three weeks of dialogues, led by “Ecology of Games” MacSeries editor Katie Salen, on the future of kids, games and learning.  Check it out…

Katie Salen: Respect the Game! (introducing this week’s Spotlight theme)

This week, the editor of the MacArthur Series volume on the “ecology of games” introduces three voices from the upcoming volume…