“We are conceiving the school as a dynamic learning system that takes its cues from the way games are designed, shared and played,” said Katie Salen,Executive Director of the Gamelab Institute of Play. “All players in the school – teachers, students,parents and administrators – will be empowered to innovate using 21st century literacies that are native to games and design. This means learning to think about the world as a set of in interconnected systems that can be affected or changed through action and choice, the ability to navigate complex information networks, the power to build worlds and tell stories, to see collaboration in competition, and communicate across diverse social spaces. It means that students and teachers will engage in their own learning in powerful ways.”
6-12th grade public school
Students call
themselves writers, designers, readers, performers,
teachers, and students. The Institute calls them
gamers.
researchers from fields as
diverse as the learning sciences, literacy studies,
computer science, and anthropology are seeing that
games can and do affect how, when, and where kids
learn.
allows
young people to explore the learning space of games
and game driven pedagogy and gives them a platform on
which to build the technical, technological, artistic,
cognitive, social, and linguistic skills they need to
graduate from high school prepared for college and the
world of work.
leveraging games and play as critical contexts
for learning.

ICT Mindtools

Games unit in particular was great - can't wait to explore all the other links. Great resource for classroom uses and info to get teachers started.

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Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games

Elementary level multi-player and single player math games : addition, subtraction, mult, div, word games, capitals, vowels, verbs. These are optimized for Wii, and there are teacher stories about how they've been used.

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.:CivWorld:.

Site for people interested in using Sid Meier's Civilization for learnign academic content (history, geography, game design). Custom game scenarios and curricula . . .worth a look.

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