Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/11/2012
EAN 9780521196239, ISBN10: 052119623X

Hardcover, 480 pages, 23.1 x 15 x 3 cm
Language: English

This volume is the first reader on video games and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture and games as twenty-first-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.

Part I. Games as Designed Experience
1. Videogames as designed experience
section one Kurt Squire
2. Designed cultures Kurt Squire
3. Theme is not meaning
who decides what a game is about? Soren Johnson
4. Our cheatin' hearts Soren Johnson
5. Playing the odds Soren Johnson
6. Nurturing lateral leaps in game design Nathan McKenzie
7. Uncharted 2
among thieves - how to become a hero Drew Davidson and Richard Lemarchand
8. Interview with harmonix Greg Lopiccolo, Kurt Squire and Sarah Chu
9. Yomi
spies of the mind David Sirlin
Part II. Games as Emergent Culture
10. Videogames as emergent culture
section two Constance Steinkuehler
11. Nurturing affinity spaces and game-based learning James Paul Gee and Elisabeth Hayes
12. Apprenticeship in massively multiplayer online games Constance Steinkuehler and Yoonsin Oh
13. Theorycrafting
the art and science of using numbers to interpret the world Trina Choontanom and Bonnie Nardi
14. Culture and community in a virtual world for young children Rebecca W. Black and Stephanie M. Reich
15. Culture vs. architecture
second life, sociality, and the human Thomas M. Malaby
16. Participatory media spaces
a design perspective on learning with media and technology in the twenty-first century Erica Rosenfeld Halverson
Part III. Games as a Twenty-First-Century Curriculum
17. Videogames as a twenty-first-century curriculum
section three Sasha Barab
18. Prediction and explanation as design mechanics in conceptually integrated digital games to help players articulate the tacit understandings they build through gameplay Douglas B. Clark and Mario Martinez-Garza
19. Game-based curricula, personal engagement, and the modern prometheus design project Sasha Barab, Patrick Pettyjohn, Melissa Gresalfi and Maria Solomou
20. Discovering familiar places
learning through mobile place-based games Bob Coulter, Eric Klopfer, Josh Sheldon and Judy Perry
21. Developing game fluencies with scratch
realizing game design as an artistic process Yasmin B. Kafai and Kyle A. Peppler
22. 'Freakin' hard'
game design and issue literacy Colleen Macklin and John Sharp
23. Models of situated action
computer games and the problem of transfer David Williamson Shaffer.