Katie Salen on the Power of Game-Based Learning (Big Thinkers Series)
Katie Salen, executive director of nonprofit design studio Institute of Play, offers a look inside the ground-breaking school in New York City that she co-founded, Quest to Learn. The school uses core principles of game design as a framework to help students become lifelong learners and design thinkers.
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Some of the most compelling visionaries in the world -- from Sir Ken Robinson to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- are focusing their attention on how to improve education. From innovative classroom concepts to suggestions on how to foster creativity and collaboration, they share their valuable insights for teaching and learning and illuminate new solutions to old problems.
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More 麻豆传媒入口 Coverage on Game-Based Learning:
- BLOG: Gamifying Student Engagement
Social studies teacher and ed techie Matthew Farber outlines the basics of gamification and suggests how they can be used to engage students in a game-centric world.
- BLOG: How to Build Curriculum Units Using the Video Game Model
Blogger Andrew Miller shows educators some specific techniques for building a game structure across different subjects.
- BLOG: The Games Pupils Play
Former 麻豆传媒入口 contributing editor Owen Edwards wrote this blog about Quest to Learn and Katie Salen's work when the school first opened in 2009.
The New York-based has continued to grow and evolve since its founding in 2009, and now the model is being remixed in Chicago at . Katie Salen continues her work with both schools as . Institute of Play also offers a great page with . In addition, Katie has since moved on from to become in Chicago. Keep up to date with and on Twitter.
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