Resonant games : design principles for learning games that connect hearts, minds, and the everyday / Eric Klopfer, Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil, and Louisa Rosenheck ; foreword by Colleen Macklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klopfer, Eric, author.

Haas, Jason, author.

Osterweil, Scot, author.

Rosenheck, Louisa, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Macklin, Colleen, writer of foreword.

Series:

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education Arcade (Project).

Video games in education.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Our game could be your life

Resonant learning

In a game, you can be whoever you want to be

"I wish I could go on here forever"

Discovering the secret world of Ysola

Beetles, beasties, and bunnies in your back pocket

Doorway to games

Measuring resonant success

Games not gamification.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780262037808

0262037807

OCLC:

1002835742