Sitting here at the Duxton in Perth while Marc Prensky engages us with his ideas on the “New Paradigm”. Predicated on the notion that the majority of approaches to current education are not created with the modern learner in mind, these assumptions and assertions filter through: Digital Natives – grew up in the digital world […]
In response to a debate convened elsewhere about the nature of Second Life and the nature of games-based learning and the nature of role-play…. Interestingly, (to me) my PhD research project is entitled “Drama Teacher as Games Master: developing digital games-based process drama as performance” My goal is to take aspects of process drama, role-playing games and dramatic performance […]
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf Jeremy Kemp at SimTeach has published an interesting overview “The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006” Well worth tracking and perhaps a very useful starting point for anyone consodering venturing into Second Life.
Ian Bogost over at Water Cooler Games discusses the release of a game based on the Paris riots. He refers to an emerging genre, “documentary games†and leads us to discover a few we may not have encountered previously. I’ve been increasingly interested in so-called documentary games (or docu-games), such as JFK Reloaded and Escape […]
GDC Mobile and Serious Games Summit GDC Call for Submissions Now Open Submit your proposal by Tuesday, September 5, 2006 For GDC Mobile 2007, click here. For Serious Games Summit GDC 2007, click here.
More from Terra Nova – Nick Yee and buddies have been investigating different aspects of virtual interaction and claim: Our data showed that many patterns of physical interaction in the real world carry over into the virtual world. In other words, our insistence on embodiment in virtual environments structures social interactions in these worlds in […]
Thomas Malaby has been writing more on games over at Terra Nova – Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games is his latest treatise on the way games scholarship is conducted and he asserts that there are some fundamental mistakes being made. Malaby in Stopping Play: A New Approach to Games suggests a new framework […]
“The secret is, even though it’s called Game Neverending, it’s not really a game at all. It’s a social space designed to facilitate and enable play.”- Ludicorp CEO Stewart Butterfield Mindjack – Stewart Butterfield Interview describing the original incarnation of Flickr as far as I can tell. This is stuff I need to spend more […]
This story about an educational use of NWN game is closely related to my investigation. I’ll be following up on this as a possibility for my 3rd creative development cycle – alternatives currently SL, AW or a games environment like this – “Educational computer games–they’re not just for five-year-olds anymore,” jokes School of Journalism and […]
Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery, London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences, artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked activity. Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts practice | […]