Are video games the forerunners of instructional tools that will determine
how we learn in the future? Do violent video games beget violent behaviour?
What are the social implications of massive multiplayers role playing games?
These and other questions on the meanings of computer games and gaming
are considered this week.
Readings:
Lauren Gonzalez (2005?) Redefining Games: How Academia Is Reshaping Games
of the Future.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6106009/p-8.html
Jame Paul Gee (2005) "What Would a State of the Art Instructional Video
Game Look Like?" Innovate: Journal
of Online Education, Aug/Sept. Vol. 1 (6)
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=80
Gonzalo Frasca (2003) "Sim Sin City: some thoughts about Grand Theft Auto
3" Games Studies Vol 3 (2).
http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/frasca/
Recommended Readings:
Greg Jones and Kevin Kalinowski (2006) A Proposal for Accelerating the
Implementation and Development of Video Games in Education. Innovate: Journal
of Online Education, Aug/Sept. Vol. 2 (6).
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=239
Kurt Squire (2005) Changing the Game: What Happens When Video Games Enter
the Classroom? Innovate: Journal
of Online Education, Aug/Sept. Vol. 1 (6).
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=82
Joel Foreman (2004). Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct
in the 21st Century. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October
2004): 50–66
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0454.asp
Sites:
PBS's documentary on the Video Game Revolution. (First aired in September
2004)
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/
“Games, Simulations, and Learning” is an EDUCAUSE NLII 2004
Key Theme http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/2004/games.asp
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) is a non-profit, international
association of academics and practitioners whose work focuses on digital
games and associated activities.
http://www.digra.org/
International Game Developers Association
http://www.igda.org/
The Ivory Tower Archive (an interesting collection of academic papers
on game research)
http://www.igda.org/columns/ivorytower/ivory_archive.php
An online journal of games research
http://www.gamestudies.org/
Water Cooler Games is a site about video games with an agenda .
It is about games that go beyond entertainment.
http://www.watercoolergames.org/
Activism, the Public Policy game
http://www.activismgame.com/
Ludology, an online resource for videogame researchers.
http://ludology.org/index.php
'America's Army' Targets Youth
by Jacob Hodes & Emma Ruby-Sachs
http://www.hiphopconvention.org/issues/tech/game.cfm