Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday

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Eric Klopfer (Professor and Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jason Haas (PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Resonant Games

Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday

Eric Klopfer (Professor and Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jason Haas (PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Scot Osterweil (Creative Director, The Education Arcade and MIT Game Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , Louisa Rosenheck (Ed Tech Designer and Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
17 July 2018

Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Games development & programming

Series: Resonant Games

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.

Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at MIT's educational game research lab, the Education Arcade.

Each of the games-which range from Vanished, an alternate reality game for middle schoolers promoting STEM careers, to Ubiquitous Bio, a series of casual mobile games for high school biology students-has a different story, but all spring from these fundamental assumptions- honor the whole learner, as a full human being, not an empty vessel awaiting a fill-up; honor the sociality of learning and play; honor a deep connection between the content and the game; and honor the learning context-most often the public school classroom, but also beyond the classroom.

By: Eric Klopfer (Professor and Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jason Haas (PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Scot Osterweil (Creative Director, The Education Arcade and MIT Game Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Louisa Rosenheck (Ed Tech Designer and Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Foreword by: Colleen Macklin (Associate Professor Parsons The New School for Design)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9780262037808
ISBN 10: 0262037807
Series: Resonant Games
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 17 July 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and the Education Arcade at MIT, and author of Augmented Learning- Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games (MIT Press). Jason Haas is a game designer and Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab and the Education Arcade. Scot Osterweil is a game designer and Creative Director at the Education Arcade at MIT. Louisa Rosenheck is an ed tech designer and Research Manager at the Education Arcade at MIT. Colleen Macklin is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School and coauthor (with John Sharp) of Games, Design, and Play- A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design. Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons.

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