Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Klopfer, Eric,Haas, Jason,Osterweil, Scot,Rosenheck, Louisa

ISBN 10: 0262037807 / ISBN 13: 9780262037808

Editore: The MIT Press, 2018

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• Titolo: Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262037807
• ISBN 13: 9780262037808
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.

Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at MIT's educational game research lab, the Education Arcade.

Each of the games—which range from Vanished, an alternate reality game for middle schoolers promoting STEM careers, to Ubiquitous Bio, a series of casual mobile games for high school biology students—has a different story, but all spring from these fundamental assumptions: honor the whole learner, as a full human being, not an empty vessel awaiting a fill-up; honor the sociality of learning and play; honor a deep connection between the content and the game; and honor the learning context—most often the public school classroom, but also beyond the classroom.

Informazioni sull?autore

Eric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and the Education Arcade at MIT, and author of Augmented Learning: Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games (MIT Press).

Jason Haas is a game designer and Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab and the Education Arcade.

Scot Osterweil is a game designer and Creative Director at the Education Arcade at MIT.

Louisa Rosenheck is an ed tech designer and Research Manager at the Education Arcade at MIT.

Colleen Macklin is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School and coauthor (with John Sharp) of Games, Design, and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design. Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons.