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By Keith Sawyer. A slide presentation on Jean Piaget's ideas of play as a natural part of children's learning processes. "... the child constructs knowledge through active interaction with the environment."

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that enables thousands of players from across the globe to come together online for an adventure through the fantasy worlds.

Posted to the White House website (whitehouse.gov), unsigned and undated. On October 5 2010, Dr. Jill Biden will chair a White House Summit on Community Colleges, highlighting "the critical role that community colleges play in developing America's workforce and reaching our educational goals." There is both an online forum (see tag whitehouse_cc) and an opportunity to submit videos. The event will be webcast, as well.

By Dian Schaffhauser in Campus Technology, August 1 2010. This article first frames the issues around developmental education, and then argues that technology alone is not enough to achieve desired completion rates. Faculty play a key role, and students must also learn to use technology effectively.

Download a jeopardy template and play.

From YouTube, an inspiring story of a service dog and the owner/trainer who was able to play to the dog's strengths.

Video used in a student exercise for a CAT in jam on Shreds of Data (R.O.).

Quest2Learn, a project of the Institute of Play, is a 6th-12th grade school designed around games and learning.

By Alan Greenblatt on NPR, March 29 2010. Greenblatt reports that there was initially great promise for community colleges in the health care reconciliation bill that was passed at the end of March. However, "Congress ultimately took a pass on restructuring the mission of the nation's community colleges." The $12 billion American Graduation Initiative recognized the important role that community colleges could play in producing more college graduates, but the initiative was not included in the final law.

See last paragraph for quote from Gail Mellow.

By Tom Stoppard, published by Samuel French, 1993. This is the worldcat record, which will direct you to other editions and formats, as well as help you to find Arcadia in a library near you.

Posted by dskmag on the blog Design for Learning, May 28 2011. This blog is written by Dean Groom, who has an interest in "embedding new pedagogical classroom practice to create authentic, realistic and relevant learning for today's learners." This post describes ways to make LMS (and online courses) more engaging, following a gaming/Xbox model.

By Susan Engel, New York Times Op-Ed, published February 1, 2010.

in the Governments section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Gonzalez, November 4, 2010. ""Bridge" programs that help adult students acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education are gaining momentum and could play a vital role in fulfilling the nation's degree-completion agenda, according to the results of a new study by the Workforce Strategy Center."

Create a customized jeopardy template. Games can be played online.

by Carla Jonsson. Published Umeå : Institutionen för moderna språk, Umeå universitet, 2005. The idea of code-switching is often attributed to the writings of Chicana Cherrie Moraga.

By Colby and Colby. Published in Computers and Composition, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-312. Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming. Abstract only available here for free. Full article for purchase or through document delivery at your college library.

As described on the Google website.

This site is credited to Utah State University, and provides math games for users of all ages, from pre-K to grade 12.

KP recommended this site as it has "some decent activities students can do on their own." She also says, "No rules, just play."

By Alexia Tsotsis for TechCrunch, August 18 2011. Kibin, a new startup, runs an editing "community" where users can edit each other's work for free (earning points for editing others' work; paying in points for having your own work edited). Users can also buy Kibin credits (rather than bartering) in order to have their work edited.

R.A. posted this as she is "wondering what role the teaching of grammar and mechanics will play in our future curricular decisions. Will we be focusing on critical thinking and rhetorical strategies instead, as areas where computers and online editors will be less useful?"