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We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

By: Karen Schrier

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We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

By: Karen Schrier

Distrust. Division. Disparity. Is our world in disrepair? Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements like #PlayApartTogether, games have become increasingly acknowledged as platforms for civic deliberation and value sharing. We the Gamers explores these possibilities by examining how we connect, communicate, analyze, and discover when we play games. Combining research-based perspectives and current examples, this volume shows how games can be used in ethics, civics, and social studies education to inspire learning, critical thinking, and civic change. We the Gamers introduces and explores various educational frameworks through a range of games and interactive experiences including board and card games, online games, virtual reality and augmented reality games, and digital games like Minecraft, Executive Command, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Fortnite, When Rivers Were Trails, Politicraft, Quandary, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The book systematically evaluates the types of skills, concepts, and knowledge needed for civic and ethical engagement, and details how games can foster these skills in classrooms, remote learning environments, and other educational settings. We the Gamers also explores the obstacles to learning with games and how to overcome those obstacles by encouraging equity and inclusion, care and compassion, and fairness and justice. Featuring helpful tips and case studies, We the Gamers shows teachers the strengths and limitations of games in helping students connect with civics and ethics, and imagines how we might repair and remake our world through gaming, together.

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0190926139

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Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

By: Karen Schrier Shaenfeld

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Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

By: Karen Schrier Shaenfeld

The Learning, Education & Games book series is perfect for any educator or developer seeking an introduction to research-driven best practices for using and designing games for learning.This volume, Bringing Games into Educational Contexts, delves into thechallenges of creating games and implementing them in educational settings. This book covers relevant issues such as gamification, curriculum development, using games to support ASD (autism spectrum disorder) students, choosing games for the classroom and library, homeschooling and gameschooling, working with parents and policymakers, and choosing tools for educational game development. Learning, Education & Games: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts is the second in a serieswritten and edited bymembers of the Learning, Education, and Games (LEG) special interestgroup of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association).

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We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

By: Karen Schrier

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We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

By: Karen Schrier

Combining research-based perspectives and current examples including Minecraft and Animal Crossing : New Horizons, We the Gamers shows how games can be used in ethics, civics, and social studies education to inspire learning, critical thinking, and civic change.

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0190926104

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Knowledge Games

How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change

By: Karen Schrier

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Knowledge Games

How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change

By: Karen Schrier

Are games the knowledge-producers of the future? Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier’s Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls of using games to make discoveries, solve real-world problems, and better understand our world. For example, so-called knowledge games—such as Foldit, a protein-folding puzzle game, SchoolLife, which crowdsources bullying interventions, and Reverse the Odds, in which mobile game players analyze breast cancer data—are already being used by researchers to gain scientific, psychological, and humanistic insights. Schrier argues that knowledge games are potentially powerful because of their ability to motivate a crowd of problem solvers within a dynamic system while also tapping into the innovative data processing and computational abilities of games. In the near future, Schrier asserts, knowledge games may be created to understand and predict voting behavior, climate concerns, historical perspectives, online harassment, susceptibility to depression, or optimal advertising strategies, among other things. In addition to investigating the intersection of games, problem solving, and crowdsourcing, Schrier examines what happens when knowledge emerges from games and game players rather than scientists, professionals, and researchers. This accessible book also critiques the limits and implications of games and considers how they may redefine what it means to produce knowledge, to play, to educate, and to be a citizen.

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1421419203

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Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

By: Karen Schrier

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Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

By: Karen Schrier

Have you ever wanted to know which games to use in your classroom, library, or afterschool program, or even at home? Which games can help teach preschoolers, K-12, college students, or adults? What can you use for science, literature, or critical thinking skills? This book explores 100 different games and how educators have used the games to teach - what worked and didn't work and their tips and techniques. The list of 100 goes from A to Z Safari to Zoombinis, and includes popular games like Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Minecraft, as well as PC, mobile, VR, AR, card and board games.

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Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

By: Karen Schrier

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Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques and Frameworks

Models, Techniques and Frameworks

By: Schrier, Karen,Gibson, David

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Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques and Frameworks

Models, Techniques and Frameworks

By: Schrier, Karen,Gibson, David

This book brings together the diverse and growing community of voices on ethics in gaming and begins to define the field, identify its primary challenges and questions, and establish the current state of the discipline"--Provided by publisher.

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IGI Global

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160960122X

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Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play

Teaching Values through Play

By: Schrier, Karen,Gibson, David

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Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play

Teaching Values through Play

By: Schrier, Karen,Gibson, David

This book addressing an emerging field of study, ethics and gamesand answers how we can better design and use games to foster ethical thinking and discourse in classrooms"--Provided by publisher.

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We the Gamers

We the Gamers

Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

We the Gamers

We the Gamers

Knowledge Games

Knowledge Games

Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

Learning, Education & Games, Volume 3: 100 Games to Use in the Classroom & Beyond

Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques and Frameworks

Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques and Frameworks

Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play

Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play

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