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For the first time in American history, a majority of high school students, even among the high – achieving, school-affiliated report that school is little more than accreditation.
Models for the future of education
• Personally meaningful, tailored• Embodied learning• Learning through failure• Producers and consumers blurred• Transmedia experience (Pokemon)• Information is just-in-time• Learning is collaborative• Embedded assessments
We are living in an interactive age built on interactive technologies of simulation …
Interactive technologies of simulation
Lemke, 1996)… and social structures of participation
Cultures of participation
“Get a Master’s in Civ3”
• Apolyton University
- Apolyton.net
• 100s of students-74 registered members- 23 courses and 6 games
• 19302 posts- median response time = 2-5 hours
Interviewer: Do you ever compare your Civ play to school?
Rob: Yes. I did a term paper on my Fall of Rome mod. You can also use it to think about current events. Like the way we’re trying to get Iraq to ‘culture flip’ to become an American cultural outpost.
Interviewer: How does Civ 3 compare to the your Western Civ class?
Rob: I actually learned a lot more history and geography through Civ3. I will probably learn more through scenario design and Civ3 than I will in this class because it’s so basic to me.
World Civilization clubs...World Civilization clubs...
• Creating deep, lifelong learning with Civ3• Creating a modding community of practice• Developing design orientation to media• Providing routes to other valued practices• Might we build a “self-organizing” learning system?
Interviewer: So do you think that is like the real Vikings?
Jamaal: Actually it is because the berserks would take this stuff which they made called wolf-bane…. like with Ivan the Boneless, which is my name in the game.
Interviewer: Where did you learn this?
Jamaal: It’s from a book I’m reading. It’s a fantasy but all the land and stuff is just like real Europe. They have Iceland on the map, and the long ships.
Interviewer: So have you read about this at school at all?
Jamaal: No…
Interviewer: So what is the scenario you made?
Jamaal …I have the island that I really wanted or that I had to get to if I wanted to win the game because it has every resource. Every island has horses and iron and the basic stuff…,
...Medical DoctorInterview people & Diagnose symptoms
…Environmental scientistInterview people Take samplings
…Government officialInterview people Official documents
Each player will perceive the case in a particular perspective and can do something others can’t.
Players must collaborate in order to develop a holistic view of the case (jigsawing).
Game Design- Players
Spring Rain
Run-offs
Watershed
Mercury
Food Chain
Algae bloom
Water quality
Fishing
Friendship
Overweight & Health Issues
Alcohol Drinking
Life Insurance
MadCity
TCE
PCB
Job Security
factors
Family
Walleye
Catfish
Sediment
embedded reflection
MD: He is wrong. I think obviously the runoff from … put mercury in the lake. The catfish ate…the catfish consumed the plankton and the mercury and then he ate the catfish and brought some home for his wife. That’s why his wife and kid are sick. And he is sick. And the wife transferred it to the baby through breast milk but not substantially. And the kid suffering from nervous disability so honestly he had died of mercury or something else.
Educational games as designed experience
• Games are ideological worlds• Game players learn through performance in
them• Learning is a reflective process of participation• From content to trajectories of experience
Squire, K. (in press). From content to context. Videogames as designed experience. To appear in Educational Researcher.
Kurt Squire: [email protected]
Games, Learning, Society: Madison, WI June 15-16
Thanks to: Eric Klopfer, MIT
culture of simulation
“For better or worse, simulation is no mere fad. Indeed, to think of simulation games as mere entertainment or even as teaching tools is to underestimate them. They represent a major addition to the intellectual repertoire that will increasingly shape how we communicate ideas and think through problems…We shall be working and thinking in SimCity for a long time.” – Paul Starr, 1995