David Williamson Shaffer’s Presentation at the HP Summit

In San Francisco February 2010, HP hosted the HP Innovations Worldwide Summit, an event that included guest speakers such as David Williamson Shaffer of the Epistemic Games Group; Michael Horn, co-author of “Disruption Class”; Phil McKinney, the HP innovation “guru”; and Georges Haddad of UNESCO.

The slides from David’s presentation, “Educational Games and Assessment in the 21st Century”, which discussed how computer games can prepare students for innovative thinking and creative careers, and provides a framework for creating assessments that measure complex thinking and creative problem solving, can be viewed here.

Urban Science game teaches children how to think like urban planners

This video describes the epistemic game Urban Science, which simulates elements of the urban planning process to teach middle school and high school students how to think like urban planners. It was was produced to give educators a view into what playing urban science is like. The video includes footage of middle school students playing and talking about a version of Urban Science that ran in 2007, and also interview footage with a teacher from Lakeview Elementary in Madison, Susan Hobart, who ran a version of the game in the spring of 2009 in her classroom.