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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: education
A complex pursuit
“[Education] is not simply a technical business of well-managed information processing, nor even simply a matter of applying ‘learning theories’ to the classroom or using the results of subject-centered ‘achievement testing’. It is a complex pursuit of fitting a culture … Continue reading
Gamification: Don’t say it, don’t do it, just stop
This post originally appeared on MediaCommons, as part of a series on gamification. I think it’s time we had a frank talk about what gamification is, and why we should stop doing it — or at least, why we should … Continue reading
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Tagged achievements, bad ideas, badges, education, gamification, mediacommons
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Parsons Talk: Pervasive Games for Experiential Media Arts Education
If you’re in NYC, you might want to check out my talk at the Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. I will be presenting Reality Ends Here and some ideas about the role of applied pervasive games in education. Hope to see you there. Continue reading
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Tagged ARGs, education, nyc, parsons, pervasive games, reality ends here, speaking
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Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between different biomes, such as the boundary between grassland and forest or between different kinds of forests. Such places are sites for evolutionary dynamism, … Continue reading
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Tagged ann pendleton-jullian, dissertation, ecology, education, innovation ecotones, pervasive games, pervasive learning, transmedia
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Learning by ARG: an interview with Mela Kocher Lennstroem
Mela Kocher Lennstroem is a Swiss games researcher currently living in San Diego, where she conducts post-doctoral research on “the blurring of reality and fiction in digital media, especially in ARGs.” Continue reading
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Tagged arg, conferences, dml 2010, education, ken eklund, mela kocher lennstroem, participation, ucsd
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ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools, and beyond
This resource contains examples of alternate reality games (ARGs) created for museums, libraries, schools, and government agencies. Also included are links to related resources, designers, observers, and policy-makers. Continue reading
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Tagged arg, education, experience-design, libraries, museums, new media literacies, schools
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Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings
Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature. Continue reading
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Tagged david buckingham, education, gunther kress, imap, julian sefton-green, mimi ito, pokemon, transmedia, yugioh
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School For Corn
The school is set up on ten tabletops with different learning stations, with the corn seeds learning through audio speakers as well as by the use of electric fans behind a row of books, which carry knowledge through the air … Continue reading