Comments on: Projecting ourselves http://epistemicgames.org/eg/identity-projection/ building the future of education Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Williamson Shaffer http://epistemicgames.org/eg/identity-projection/comment-page-1/#comment-337 David Williamson Shaffer Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:01:17 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=484#comment-337 Thanks for your question. This is a much longer discussion, and you can watch a video looking at some of the issues here: http://epistemicgames.org/eg/david-williamson-shaffers-talk-at-eduverse-symposium-2-now-online/ . You might also look at some of the work that IBM is doing on the subject: http://www.seriosity.com/leadership.html . Researchers such as Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown have also been looking at the issue: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html Thanks for your question. This is a much longer discussion, and you can watch a video looking at some of the issues here: http://epistemicgames.org/eg/david-williamson-shaffers-talk-at-eduverse-symposium-2-now-online/ . You might also look at some of the work that IBM is doing on the subject: http://www.seriosity.com/leadership.html . Researchers such as Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown have also been looking at the issue: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html

]]> By: Rachel http://epistemicgames.org/eg/identity-projection/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Rachel Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:27:02 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=484#comment-336 Do you know of any way that persons would learn from playing World of Warcraft? I will say the game appears to require a lot of reading in order to play the game. However, I have not been able to fully probe his understanding of all the vocabulary he encounters in the game. Do you know of any way that persons would learn from playing World of Warcraft? I will say the game appears to require a lot of reading in order to play the game. However, I have not been able to fully probe his understanding of all the vocabulary he encounters in the game.

]]> By: David Williamson Shaffer http://epistemicgames.org/eg/identity-projection/comment-page-1/#comment-334 David Williamson Shaffer Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:09:29 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=484#comment-334 Thank you both for your comments here. I am sorry it took me--well, basically forever, to reply. Hopefully our new blog will make the site more "conversational". We've come a long way since 2007 in terms of places that are interested in running games. In the next couple of months we will have a place on the site to sign up if you are interested in participating in our research--but more on that coming soon. Best, David Thank you both for your comments here. I am sorry it took me–well, basically forever, to reply. Hopefully our new blog will make the site more “conversational”. We’ve come a long way since 2007 in terms of places that are interested in running games. In the next couple of months we will have a place on the site to sign up if you are interested in participating in our research–but more on that coming soon.

Best,

David

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]]> By: Tim Goree http://epistemicgames.org/eg/identity-projection/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Tim Goree Sat, 05 May 2007 18:22:20 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=484#comment-76 Hi David, I'm about half way through your book now, and finding great material in it to talk to my staff and administrators that I work with about. Regarding your work (primarily in the summers) with middle school students, has anyone else picked up on this and started running similar summer school classes themselves? I think running classes solely based on engineering/design games with teachers as facilitators that primarily participate in "desk crits" with kids would be very doable in our school district. Are there any tools, guides, or leading school districts in this concept that could give us ideas as to how to make this happen? Forgive me if these resources are given later in your book - I haven't gotten there yet! Awesome work - thanks for sharing! Hi David,
I’m about half way through your book now, and finding great material in it to talk to my staff and administrators that I work with about.

Regarding your work (primarily in the summers) with middle school students, has anyone else picked up on this and started running similar summer school classes themselves? I think running classes solely based on engineering/design games with teachers as facilitators that primarily participate in “desk crits” with kids would be very doable in our school district. Are there any tools, guides, or leading school districts in this concept that could give us ideas as to how to make this happen?

Forgive me if these resources are given later in your book – I haven’t gotten there yet!

Awesome work – thanks for sharing!

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