Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age

by Edited by Constance Steinkuehler , Kurt Squire , Sasha Barab

• ISBN13: 9780521196239
• ISBN10: 052119623X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume is the first reader on videogames and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture, and games as 21st century pedagogy, it demonstrates the depth and breadth of scholarship on games and learning to date. The chapters represent some of the most influential thinkers, designers, and writers in the emerging field of games and learning - including James Paul Gee, Soren Johnson, Eric Klopfer, Colleen Macklin, Thomas Malaby, Bonnie Nardi, David Sirlin, and others. Together, their work functions both as an excellent introduction to the field of games and learning and as a powerful argument for the use of games in formal and informal learning environments in a digital age.

Table of Contents

Games as Designed Experience:

Videogames as designed experience: section one

Designed cultures

Theme is not meaning: who decides what a game is about?

Our cheatin' hearts

Playing the odds

Nurturing lateral leaps in game design

Uncharted 2: among thieves - how to become a hero

Interview with harmonix

Yomi: spies of the mind

Games as Emergent Culture:

Videogames as emergent culture: section two

Nurturing affinity spaces and game-based learning

Apprenticeship in massively multiplayer online games Constance Steinkuehler and Yoonsin Oh

Theorycrafting: the art and science of using numbers to interpret the world

Culture and community in a virtual world for young children

Culture vs. architecture: second life, sociality, and the human

Participatory media spaces: a design perspective on learning with media and technology in the twenty-first century

Games as a Twenty-First-Century Curriculum:

Videogames as a twenty-first-century curriculum: section three

Prediction and explanation as design mechanics in conceptually integrated digital games to help players articulate the tacit understandings they build through gameplay Douglas

Game-based curricula, personal engagement, and the modern prometheus design project

Discovering familiar places: learning through mobile place-based games

Developing game fluencies with scratch: realizing game design as an artistic process

'Freakin' hard': game design and issue literacy

Models of situated action: computer games and the problem of transfer

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