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10/31/06

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Eric Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman: Let them make games! - the Game Designer project

Game Designer, a MacArthur-funded collaboration between Gamelab and the GAPPS lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches literacy through game design and creation.

Filed in: Games

 
 

10/25/06

Filed by
James Paul Gee

(Part II)—James Paul Gee: Good Games are Good for Good Learning, **But**...

Video games hold out great promise as a way to enhance learning, but we need to go beyond the game as a piece of software to really speak to the conditions necessary for deep learning to occur.

Filed in: Games

 
 

10/24/06

Filed by
James Paul Gee

James Paul Gee: Good Games are Good for Good Learning (part I)

Good video games are good for learning.  When we compare how they recruit learning, I believe we see ways in which learning can be enhanced in and out of school, with or without using games.

Filed in: Games

 
 

10/20/06

Filed by
danah boyd

danah boyd: coverage from MacArthur’s launch of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative

Yesterday i had the fortune to participate in the launch so that i could bringing you, our dear new readers, some sense of what took place.  First an overview, and then i want to dive in and highlight some of the key take-aways of the conversation…
 
 

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