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Thursday 12th June 2008 8:00 am
David Shaffer: Epistemic Games, the Movie
A University of Wisconsin Professor shares a video about work developing “epistemic games” that help players learn to think like professionals in the knowledge economy.
As researchers studying new media, it only seemed appropriate to let people know about our work using… well, new media.
This short video gives an overview of our work on Urban Science and other epistemic games as part of the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Initiative.
In these games, players have a chance to learn 21st century skills by playing as urban planners, engineers, journalists, and other professionals in the knowledge economy.
I suppose next we’ll need to make an epistemic game about making epistemic games....
Editor’s Note: See a few of Shaffer’s past posts on epistemic games here and here.
Category: Ecology-of-Games
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