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18 Jul 08

Play Journal: New school based on computer gameplay

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“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
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- 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.