AASL preconference

1. The Games Libraries Play (and How They Align Them) Presented by: Kelly Czarnecki 11.05.09

4. What are electronic games played on?

5. What are electronic games played on? Nintendo Wii Personal Computer PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 iPhone PlayStation Portable Nintendo DSi Apple’s iMac

7. “ Kids are hungry to learn but we need to speak their language” – Educator Donna Stevens

9. “ If we treat school activity in terms of learning, playing, and helping, then we can more thoroughly engage children in the learning process” – Sasha Barab, co-creator of Quest Atlantis

10. What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? Q2L or Quest to Learn Mission: Students today can and do learn in different ways, often through interaction with digital media and games www.q2l.org

15. What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? Future City National Competition: using the Sims4 video game www.futurecity.org/ Article in School Library Journal: July 2009: http://tinyurl.com/yjhgmqv

17. “ Though the percentage of young people in virtual worlds is modest, the creativity demonstrated by those who are in them is staggering – and inspiring.” – Born Digital

22. What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/29

23. “ Digital is the old way of thinking, mobile is the new way”-Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning (January 2009, Joan Ganz Cooney report).

26. What are Schools Doing with Mobile Gaming? Free resource for geocaching

30. Print Resources