Scaling Up a Video Game-Learning Link
Isn't it time we leveled up?
By Michael H. Levine & Alan Gershenfeld
At an event at the White House in September, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the establishment of the Digital Promise , a nonprofit initiative created to promote digital technologies with the potential to transform teaching and learning. Experts on digital media and learning cheered this latest signal that robust experimentation with technology based on rigorous research and development would take a more prominent place in the national education reform debate.
In tandem with the Digital Promise rollout, our organizations-the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and E-Line Media-announced the second year of the National STEM Video Game Challenge . This video-game-design competition is intended to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, learning among America's young people by tapping into students' natural passion for playing and making video games.
Why games? Are video games really a key element of an untapped "digital promise"? We believe the answer is yes. But we are also acutely aware that realizing this promise will take a concentrated effort by dedicated scientists, game designers, teachers, supervisors, educational publishers,...
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Research Summary:
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. Among Darling-Hammond's more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Schools that Work, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998.
Current Research:
Teacher education; school leadership development; school redesign; educational equity; instruction of diverse learners; education policy.
Research Interests:
Professional / Staff Development
Academic Restructuring
Research Design
Adolescent Development
High-stakes Testing
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
Associate Professor
Other Titles
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy)
Faculty Co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
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Phone: (650) 725-5510
Email: debram@stanford.edu
Office Location: CE 427
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Program Affiliations
SHIPS (PhD): Administration and Policy Analysis
SHIPS (PhD): Organization Studies
SHIPS (MA): POLS
SHIPS (MA): MA/MBA
Research
Research Summary:
Professor Meyerson's research has focused on conditions and change strategies that foster constructive and equitable gender and race relations in organizations. Her more recent projects investigate scaling and innovation in the charter school field, the role of philanthropy in shaping educational innovation, and conditions that foster learning and distributed leadership in organizations.
Current Research:
Debra Meyerson conducts research in five areas: a) gender and race relations in organizations, specifically individual and organizational strategies of change aimed at removing inequities and fostering productive inter-group relations; b) the role of philanthropic organizations as intermediaries in fostering change within educational institutions; c) leadership and entrepreneurship in education; d)going to scale in the charter school field; and e)accessibility and the construction (and destruction) of work-life boundaries through communication technologies.
Research Interests:
Feminism
Gender Studies
Identity
School Leadership
Intergroup Relations
School Reform Issues
Charter Schools
Statistical Issues in Educational Accountability and Large-Scale Assessment
Minorities
Dispersed Leadership
Multiculturalism
Diversity
Organizational Change
Organizations
Educational Equity
Women and Management / Work
Principal Training
Ethnography
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"By taking on the quality of uncontestable truth, dominant narratives in organizations keep existing arrangements in place. Alternative narratives open the way for experimentatio
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