Post on 21-Dec-2015
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Why learning games?
• Kids play computer games regularly– Ages 2-7 play ~43 minutes/day– Ages 8-12 play ~56 minutes/day– Ages 13-17 play ~78 minutes/day
• Most kids play computer games– 92% of kids ages 2-17 play video and computer games
(Gentile & Walsh, 2002)
• Low income kids play computer games at home– Game play is their primary reason for using computers
(Jackson et al., 2005)
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Don Tapscott
Growing Up DigitalThe Rise of the Net Generation
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"You can learn more about a man in one hour of play
than in one year of conversation.”
-Plato
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“One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it,is the invention of good games. And it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.”
-Carl Gustav Jung & Laurens van der Post
Jung and the Story of Our Time
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“Literature on school improvement is full of exhortations to make the content of instruction "relevant." .... But if one does belong to a culture in which video games are important, transforming oneself from a consumer to a producer of games may well be an even more powerful way for some children to find importance in what they are doing.”
-Yasmin Kafai
Minds in Play
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“You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters.”
- Plato
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Chris Crawford
The Art of Interactive DesignA Euphonious and IlluminatingGuide to Building Successful Software
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“If you must play,
decide on three things at the start:
the rules of the game, the stakes,
and the quitting time.”
-Chinese proverb
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“Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
-Ayn Rand, The Moratorium on Brains
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Lee Sheldon
Character Development & StorytellingFor Games
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“That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”
-Richard Bach
The Bridge Across Forever
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“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”
-Michel de Montaigne
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“Anyone who makes a distinction
between games and learning
doesn't know the first thing about either.”
- Marshall McLuhan
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“Games are thus the most ancient and time-honored vehicle for education…
We don't see mother lions lecturing cubs at the chalkboard; we don't see senior lions writing their memoirs for posterity. In light of this, the question, ‘Can games have educational value?’ becomes absurd.
It is not games but schools that are the newfangled notion, the untested fad, the violator of tradition.”
- Chris CrawfordThe Art of Computer Game Design
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Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman
Rules of PlayGame Design Fundamentals
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“The computer is a medium of human expression and if it has not yet had its Shakespeares, its Michelangelos or its Einsteins, it will. ..
We have scarcely begun to grasp its human and social implications.”
-Seymour Papert
Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
-Plutarch
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“Why are we even talking about ‘educational games?’ - as if games
weren't already educational!”
-Will Wright
Sim City & The Sims
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“Game designers have a lot better take on the nature of learning than
instructional designers.”
-Seymour Papert
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Brenda Laurel (ed)
• Design Research Methods and Perspectives
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“I believe learning comes from passion, not discipline.”
-Nicholas Negroponte
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“The technology at hand today is more interesting than technology has ever been. The things we can achieve with technology make the present day the most exciting time
to be alive in the history of art.”-Peter Sellars
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“There's so much comedyon television. Does that cause
comedy in the streets?” -Dick Cavett
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Steven Johnson
Everything Bad is Good for YouHow Today’s Pop Culture isActually Making Us Smarter
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“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.”
-Mark Twain
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“It is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely
safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing means making
everything your own.”-Seneca