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Admongo: a game for kids 8 - 12 yrs old teaching about advertisements and their meanings - to be good consumers starts with awareness

Kzero: a consulting company that does market and strategy research on virtual worlds, augmented reality and 3D gaming

The Education Arcade: MIT's lab to move learning games fwd: authentic, engaging play that teaches

A motivation typology for why people play Massively Multiuser Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)

High School in NYC that uncovers the patterns of games to teach kids critical thinking and new media skills

Games as eText support: the future of the book is here

OWP/literature/literacy: computer games are a growing force in literature... creating a new "genre" of such

sign up with (favorite color) (favorite animal) + choose an available number. Then choose a type of game to play: Maths 101, Maths Mix, Algebra, Spelling, or Times Tables. From within those categories, select a difficulty level. Then a competitor (a real person) will select to be your opponent... and you RACE to see who wins! Get badges and level up as you go.

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) special issue on ARVEL SIG 2009 papers.

Includes Jonathon Richter's manuscript on Collaboratories and Virtual Safaris as Research in Virtual Learning Environments Scholarship

wisconsin online resource center: gaming stuff