1. Madrid, 2009
,
When Are Games Good for Learning and Teaching?
Examples and Explorations
Pilar Lacasa. University of Alcalá. Spain
AERA 2010. SIG‐Media, Culture, and Curriculum
Denver, Sat, May 1

2. Elisabeth R. Hayes et al
Children as
designers
Elizabeth M.
Robert J. Torres
King et al.
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People Tools
Girls? What games?
Karla Hamlen Kylie A. Peppler
et al.

3. D.M. Grethen, 2007
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An Expanded Conception of Game Media Literacy

4. • Games as
• Designed objects
• Cultural & Social
r.com/
significance
ill Crocke www.willcrocker
• Related to cognitive,
attitudinal, &
performances outcomes
• Theoretical models:
h ti l d l
• Different levels of
activity in the face of
er
the game
th
Questions:
apher: Wi
• Same theoretical models
for all the games?
Photogra
• What about context? For
example, augmented
reality, online gaming
reality online gaming
An Expanded Conception of Game Media Literacy

5. After‐School Online Program for Adolescent
Boys Leveraging Online Games for Literacy

6. • MMOs are important “Third • Questions
places” for informal • Games literacies, much
learning.
g more than problem
• Games are both solving, looking for
technologies and information? NOT JUST
communities of practice COGNITION?
• The case of Dumptruck:
he founds school to be • For example: What about
“extremely boring”
extremely boring MMOs & civic
MMO & i i engagement?t?
• Games & cognitive
habilities
After‐School Online Program for Adolescent Boys Leveraging
Online Games for Literacy

7. Madrid 2009
d,
The Gender Gap In Technology:
Re‐examining Gender Differences in Video Game Play

8. “This study focuses on the amount of time children spend
playing video games and how good children feel they are at the
l i id d h d hild f l th t th
video games”
TIME PEOPLE SPENDS PLAYING HOW GOOD THEY THINK THEY ARE
Questions:
• What about future researchs?
• Games as social practices
• Much more than playing “Hanna Montana”?
p y g
The Gender Gap In Technology:
Re‐examining Gender Differences in Video Game Play

9. The Nirvana Effect:
Tapping Rhythmic Video Games to Leverage Learning and Motivation

10. “New representations of music (e.g.video games, composition
software) can provide a third space in which learning musical
concepts can take place.
concepts can take place.”
The role of motivation
Questions:
• Much more than learning music?
• Social participation
• The role of the teacher
The Nirvana Effect:
Tapping Rhythmic Video Games to Leverage Learning and Motivation

11. Learning Complexity in Situ: Urban Middle Schoolers Show Understanding of
Systems Thinking as a Result of Playing and Designing Games Within an Immersive
Online Platform Called Gamestar Mechanic

12. • Gamestar Mechanic • Questions
• Game design community
g y • Children & Young People
space for multiple as Designers
players • How to support the
• Instantiating a learning teachers?
domain mediated by a • How to combine with
video game designed may other tools?
serve to facilitate the
development of systems
thinking skills.
Learning Complexity in Situ: Urban Middle Schoolers Show Understanding of
Systems Thinking as a Result of Playing and Designing Games Within an Immersive
Online Platform Called Gamestar Mechanic

13. s/154/
ttp://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions
January 13, 2008. The New York Times
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The Ritual of Chess, a Decoder of Life.
DOROTHY SPEARS
“This is a text about the world …”

14. Thanks!
Th k !
p.lacasa@uah.es
http://uah‐gipi.org/index.php