Epistemic Journals & Conferences
Below is a list of conferences and journals members of the Epistemic Games group have attended and published in.
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Spring cleaning
Update: May 16, 2010
We’ve just put the finishing touches on some updates for our website, and we’re hoping you’ll enjoy the new material and improved organization. Unfortunately, we’re also experiencing some hiccups in our RSS feeds as they catch up. So, we appreciate your patience if you’ve seen some old or oddly named items in your reader. As always, we look forward to seeing your comments and hearing your thoughts.
Dispatches from the front lines
Epistemic games, by design, are very difficult. The concepts, the terminology, decisions, the challenges are usually completely foreign to our young players. We can ask young people to do work that would likely be impossible for most of them to do by themselves precisely because the games provide careful scaffolding. A primary source of that scaffolding are in-game mentors who interact with the players via chat as they play.
Working as a mentor in an epistemic game is also very difficult.
