http://edumatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/game-designer-katie-salen-at-neus-teaching-with-technology-day/ Education and Technology multiblog Sun, 04 May 2008 15:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://edumatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/game-designer-katie-salen-at-neus-teaching-with-technology-day/#comment-6 Denis Saulnier Sun, 04 May 2008 15:37:28 +0000 http://edumatic.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-6 I was also at Katie's presentation at Northeastern. I'm also not of the 'gamer generation'. As someone who works with educational simulation/games, though, I do appreciate her notions about games offering learning opportunities that map closely to today's digital literacies. I appreciate Peter's honesty about not having personally experienced a game that gave him significant learning above and beyond what might be achieved via other means. But I do think that even when designing non-game educational experiences like online courses, simulations, etc, we can try and borrow frameworks common to games that can enhance a student's understanding. So the "how" games teach/scaffold/provide feedback might be as important or more important than the "what" they teach. I was also at Katie’s presentation at Northeastern. I’m also not of the ‘gamer generation’. As someone who works with educational simulation/games, though, I do appreciate her notions about games offering learning opportunities that map closely to today’s digital literacies. I appreciate Peter’s honesty about not having personally experienced a game that gave him significant learning above and beyond what might be achieved via other means. But I do think that even when designing non-game educational experiences like online courses, simulations, etc, we can try and borrow frameworks common to games that can enhance a student’s understanding. So the “how” games teach/scaffold/provide feedback might be as important or more important than the “what” they teach.

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